From a424d54cab8746ab09ffb67eed9c33b43faa14e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 11:03:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memoir schedule planning/fantasizing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thinking about wordcounts is so dross; I have a story to tell; there's no escaping it; let's just get this done this month; it's still early; it's not—over. --- notes/memoir-sections.md | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/notes/memoir-sections.md b/notes/memoir-sections.md index 4a604bd..aa65166 100644 --- a/notes/memoir-sections.md +++ b/notes/memoir-sections.md @@ -299,6 +299,50 @@ Friend of the blog Ninety-Three has been nagging me about my pathetic pacing—l ------- +It might actually make sense for this to get split into eight parts??—I'm going to finish the five-part draft first before doing any more splitting. But— + +Here's where we stand now— + +24K Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer +23K A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning +21K If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them +16K Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles +31K Standing Under the Same Sky +----- +115K + +What if that became something more like— +19K Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer +10K My Recent Madness (working title) +23K A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning +30K If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them +16K Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles +18K Dignity (working title) +20K Standing Under the Same Sky + 3K Epilogue (working title) +----- +139K + +If I did this, I would need three more good (non-working) titles and epigraph quotes. For epigraphs, I'm thinking— +My Recent Madness—Zoolander "crazy pills" quote +Dignity—it has all been said before, but you must say it again +Epilogue—the truth is great and shall prevail + +... I don't think I want to go to eight parts, though—that's way too self-indulgent! (I think I can go to six, because the dath ilan discussion actually is long and separable; I probably don't need a separate epilogue-post.) If one of my existing parts runs over 30K words, that's strong evidence that it can be cut. + +30K Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer +23K A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning +30K If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them +16K Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles +20K Dignity (working title) +20K Standing Under the Same Sky +--- +139K + +—which implies that I'm 25 double-digit writing days away, such that finishing a gapless ms. in April is at least thinkable ... but only if I stop daydreaming and get to work. + +------- + The thing about our crowd is that we have a lamentably low proportion of women (13.3% cis women in the last community survey) and—I don't know when this happened; it certainly didn't feel like this back in 'aught-nine—an enormous number of trans women relative to population base rates (2.7%, for a cis-to-trans ratio of 4.9!!), the vast majority of whom I expect to be AGP -- 2.17.1