I continue to slog my way through a painful and thorough edit of Kingmaker. (I'm almost certain now that that's going to be the title.) I'm nearing the climax of the novel and working on tweaking plot elements so that everything is tight. As well as, of course, continuing to convert everything from first to third person POV. Which is delightful.
I took a break from editing yesterday to hang out with my dad. He's teaching me to play pool at a local billiards hall, which is fun but also slow and occasionally aggravating. My goal is to become one of those people who saunters into a bar, walks up to the pool table, and puts a twenty on the edge to challenge anyone who dares face me. Okay, it would be nice to be able to sometimes hit the ball in the hole too! I also went swimming for the first time in ages yesterday--it's the only form of exercise I'm permitted as long as I have a very annoying stress fracture in my foot, so I guess I'll be going a lot more often in the coming months.
Finally, we also saw (500) Days of Summer yesterday. My feelings were mixed. Overall I enjoyed the movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was adorable at the beginning as Tom, the leading man, a greeting card writer with dreams of becoming an architect who's searching for true love. Zooey Deschanel (sister to Emily Deschanel, lead of the fantastic show Bones) does a fairly good job as Summer, the object of Tom's affection. Summer doesn't believe in love but enters into a romantic relationship with Tom (though she always refers to them as just "friends"), but eventually she decides they should break up and Tom spends the rest of the movie moping, trying to get her back, and eventually moving on.
There are a lot of cute elements to the movie, particularly in the early stages of Tom and Summer's relationship, but it becomes a bit whiny as time goes on. Most of the really good moments were in the trailer. It wasn't a long movie but it felt like it went on forever. A decent enough summer watch, but it's pretty depressing and not really encouraging to all of us out there in search of our own true loves.
My rating: 2 1/2 stars
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Regan,
Sorry to hear about the stress fracture! I'm in the gymnastics biz so stress fracture's are a big part of our vocabulary and very frustrating for our gymnasts.
I am editing right now changing the half of my novel that is present tense to past tense.
You were right it sounds much better.
Good luck with your edits!
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