{"id":2264,"date":"2014-06-14T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:15:18","slug":"scheduling-book-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling & Book Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am now taking the pre-pre-op eyedrops (started the 12th, will continue on through the pre-op doctor’s visit, which is the 19th) and on schedule for the cataract surgery a few days later.\u00a0\u00a0 Came home from A-Kon to the usual ton of work, which I still haven’t worked through because of a) the eye doctor visit–left me with blurry vision for hours afterward, b) storms that interfered with internet usage for some hours, and c) congenital laziness, AKA the desire to finish another pair of socks.\u00a0 (For pictures of the now-finished “desert canyon” short socks, inside and out, see my LiveJournal post from yesterday. <\/a>)<\/p>\n

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And here they are on my feet, taken outside on a cloudy day.<\/p>\n

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Next in line are the “tropical lagoon” socks, still in progress:<\/p>\n

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I’m still learning how to use the new Paint Shop Pro, and though I got the turquoise to look turquoise (rather than just light blue) I messed up the resizing and sharpening thing a little. Still–they’re very watery looking compared to the desert sunset canyon socks.\u00a0\u00a0 (I hope I can remember how I got the turquoise to look turquoise–adjusting color in the new PSP is a lot more complicated than in the older one I had on the old box.\u00a0 But that turquoise yarn nearly always looks light blue when photographed, no matter the light source.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile on the book front, I am weaning myself away from the grimdark story, because writing it is just not fun.\u00a0 Is it a sterling idea?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0\u00a0 Would it be a possible major award winner, done right?\u00a0 Yes, indeedy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve made a solid start on it…20+ pages.\u00a0 But do I really, truly want to write it myself at the intensity it would take (most of the intensity being unpleasant?)\u00a0\u00a0 Um.\u00a0 No.\u00a0\u00a0 Even yanking First Protagonist around to find out a redeeming characteristic or two…I’m just not that into him.\u00a0\u00a0 But I’m also not settling into another story and maybe it’s the eye operation in my immediate future that’s responsible…that or the piles of other work.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0 several characters are begging for their chance to run with it and others are in line, though not yet making their pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am now taking the pre-pre-op eyedrops (started the 12th, will continue on through the pre-op doctor’s visit, which is the 19th) and on schedule for the cataract surgery a few days later.\u00a0\u00a0 Came home from A-Kon to the usual ton of work, which I still haven’t worked through because of a) the eye doctor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}