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Tom Jones, I salute you
Jun. 12th, 2007 02:55 pmWork's been going pretty well lately, and I feel like I've been making good progress on my hundred and eighteenth rewrite of Book #1. Not rapid progress, but good progress, and that's what counts. I have this vague goal of finishing the job before my trip to Italy in October, and that might actually be possible, though it's far from a sure thing. Still, it's a good motivator.
But yesterday I made it into a really long, difficult chapter. It's one of those chapters where I'm not entirely sure how much of it needs rewriting -- I know it's somewhere between "most" and "all," but it's hard to say for certain -- and the stuff that I'm sure needs rewriting, I'm not sure how to fix. Or rather, how to fix and have it still be interesting. Yesterday I made a wee bit of progress, but it felt like inching my way up a sheer cliff, and I'm back at it today, and I keep hoping the grade will level out a little, or that the cliff-face will offer more secure hand- and foot-holds (heck, once I've started a wildly out-of-character metaphor, I might as extend it), but that's not happening. Yesterday towards the end of the day I had this one idea that I thought would solve a few problems at once, and today I realized that this won't solve as many problems as I'd hoped and will instead create new and possibly bigger ones.
Which had me all discouraged and glum, so I decided to take a little break and websurf in the hopes of finding something to cheer me up.
And I found Tom Jones covering Yaz's "Situation". Which is so absurd and wrong and wonderful at the same time that it has made me smile.
Tom Jones is just so *wholehearted* about being Tom Jones, you know? The man never phones it in. He sings with absolutely no sense of irony. He's just totally and completely Tom Jones, all the time, no matter how bizarrely incongruous his material. He could sing nursery rhymes and he'd still be Tom Jones. I have to respect that.
So, thank you, internet. I needed that. And now I'll return to work.
But yesterday I made it into a really long, difficult chapter. It's one of those chapters where I'm not entirely sure how much of it needs rewriting -- I know it's somewhere between "most" and "all," but it's hard to say for certain -- and the stuff that I'm sure needs rewriting, I'm not sure how to fix. Or rather, how to fix and have it still be interesting. Yesterday I made a wee bit of progress, but it felt like inching my way up a sheer cliff, and I'm back at it today, and I keep hoping the grade will level out a little, or that the cliff-face will offer more secure hand- and foot-holds (heck, once I've started a wildly out-of-character metaphor, I might as extend it), but that's not happening. Yesterday towards the end of the day I had this one idea that I thought would solve a few problems at once, and today I realized that this won't solve as many problems as I'd hoped and will instead create new and possibly bigger ones.
Which had me all discouraged and glum, so I decided to take a little break and websurf in the hopes of finding something to cheer me up.
And I found Tom Jones covering Yaz's "Situation". Which is so absurd and wrong and wonderful at the same time that it has made me smile.
Tom Jones is just so *wholehearted* about being Tom Jones, you know? The man never phones it in. He sings with absolutely no sense of irony. He's just totally and completely Tom Jones, all the time, no matter how bizarrely incongruous his material. He could sing nursery rhymes and he'd still be Tom Jones. I have to respect that.
So, thank you, internet. I needed that. And now I'll return to work.
