Dr. Catherine Schaff-Stump

This is me, checking out my new ability to post from Writer Tamago to my live journal. You can comment at Writer Tamago, or here. With the able bodied help of my friend Mark, we’re working on making Writer Tamago more writerly.

Tamago is a Japanese word. It means egg. A piece of useful Japanese slang: if you are a “fill in the blank” egg, it means you are a new or beginning “fill in the blank.” I figured there would be very few Writer Tamago sites out there in name, although plenty in deed.

Today, the first thing to show off are my new writer pictures, which will be peppered here and there about the site. Here’s how you get to that gallery:

http://pics.livejournal.com/awelkin/gallery/00036gxa

Let me know which ones you like! Thanks to afore mentioned able bodied friend Mark for taking these pictures.

And, by the way, I registered http://www.cathschaffstump.com today, so as soon as we get all the nice new stuff ready to go, we’ll get it switched over to there.

La, la, la really am rewriting Substance of Shadows first.

Catherine

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You want progress? Okay. :D

Chapter 5 is done. New scenes added, the whole thing revised, and proofed. Chapter 6 is about half done, new scenes added, the whole thing revised, and proofed. This whole process took 79 minutes. I know this, because I played the new Battlestar Galactica Season 3 CD that Santa brought me in my stocking this weekend.

If I can get up more gumption tonight, I'll hit the latter half of Chapter 6. There are four scenes left--one in need of heavy revision (by virtue of eliminating one character and substituting another. Can I use character folding as a technical term? Is there a technical term?). Two are in great shape and need tightening. One has to be produced from the ground up anew.

Then we're into Chapter 7. Chapter 7 has Esme's trial in it. Critical decisions. Do I keep the whole Michael Hamwich prediction thing? I need a layer of bad kids acting badly at the trial, so I need to weave that in. What sorts of bits are in there that I like that don't move the plot forward? It's a pivotal chapter, so I have a lot to do with it.

Chapter 8, the transitional section to Errol's trial isn't too bad, although I have to introduce the main bad cheese in it for the first time in this version. So I'll have to shine that up.

That's as far as I want to look right now.

I'm pleased with today's progress. It's a lot like being a full time writer today.

Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, has some cooking in it, and maybe a church service, so both writing and meal preplanning have to be done. Do I take the day off on Christmas? Probably not. Why? I'll be vacationing on the 26th and getting tortured by doctors again on the 27th. (Really, it's a consultation with a cardiologist, and I have no idea what, if any, exciting tests they'll want now that I have a demonstrative hepatobiliary scan on hand.)

manzabar, it's looking like the 28th for website stuff, barring zany, horrible testing. Pretty excited about getting that done!

I hope you're all warmer where you're at than we are here in Iowa.

Catherine

It's board meeting week at the Stump home, and that means that tonight will be my third meeting night in a row. I haven't had a chance to rapturously write about anything this week so far. Le Sigh.

Tomorrow night is different. Declaration of intent: to work on the rewrite of Sister Night, Sister Moon if only for an hour. MUST write. Feel constipated. TMI? Yeah. :)

Oh, and to cook at home. To check the papers I have to for Friday's conferences. To finish arrangements I need to make for this weekend.

Speaking of this weekend, it'll probably involve some website revamping type activity. New photos of me too. No, I really don't have white hair, long red hair, cornrows, or look like moody boys, like you might think from the great minoukatze art of my characters. I know that we tend to associate people with their avatars.

Instead, I look like this:

http://cath.coffeebear.net/web-content/ (three years ago)

or this:

http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?p=6320 (five years ago. Scroll down to Catherine Schaff-Stump. Actually, that's pretty close to how I look now, after my 'do on Monday.)

Anywhoo, thought you might be curious. Once mighty manzabar takes some new pictures of me, I'll make some appropriate icons.

Gotta do some professorial editing and reading before the next bo(a)r(e)d meeting.

Catherine