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[layla]

Writing the dialogue for the next scene in Sun-Cutter is killing me. (Well, not literally, of course.) There's so much information on Tertian culture, and the history of Tertian-Secuban relations, and the characters' backgrounds that I'm trying to squeeze into the dialogue without being either utterly opaque, or completely annoying my readers with the infodumping. Kismet, generally speaking, doesn't use narrative captions, aside from place-names for orientation and then the occasional character's thoughts in a voice-over -- it's a deliberate stylistic choice, but one that really drives me crazy when I'm trying to impart information. It's so much easier to explain what the hell is going on when you've got prose to work with ...

Friday is my last day at work. I'm excited and slightly terrified. The last time I was completely unemployed, with no clear idea of what my next job was going to be, was back in 2000 -- even when I moved from Illinois to Alaska, I already had this job lined up. But I've been at the News-Miner for five years, and as crazy as I sometimes think I am to quit a job where I'm well liked and making a good salary, I also feel very strongly that I have other things I need to do with my life. This fall, I'll be going back to school to finish my art degree. After that, I plan to focus on freelance work and writing novels, as long as I can before I either start making money at it, or have to go back to a day job. It's thrilling and, at the same time, very intimidating. I haven't been doing too badly at the freelance thing over the last few years, at least by my standards, but I sure as heck couldn't live on it.

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[livrelibre]

Good luck with the last days (and yes, go for it!)

[layla]

Thank you. :) Life's short, and sometimes I have to remind myself that it *is* worth it to give up a bit of stability in order to do the things I want to do!