{"id":6266,"date":"2011-06-19T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T11:01:20","slug":"ladies-aka-just-arrived-more-hugo-awards-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/ladies-aka-just-arrived-more-hugo-awards-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies & Gentlemen: I Give You—the Post Office; aka “Just Arrived: More Hugo Awards Reading”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The earth may shake and buildings fall, but the post office, bless it, continues to deliver mail. You may recall<\/a> that I plan to read, post on and vote for the Hugo Awards <\/a>fiction finalists <\/em><\/strong>once I meet my Gathering<\/em><\/strong> deadline of 1 July. (Hugo Awards voting closes on 31 July so there should<\/em> be a window, all going well.)<\/p>\n

To that end, I have been acquiring hard copies of all the finalists in the\u00a0 novel category because I don’t like reading works that large on screen. And now I have Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House<\/em><\/strong> to add to the Hugo Awards TBR pile.<\/p>\n

So may I propose, ladies and gentlemen, a toast: to the Post Office—steadfastly carrying on in a quaky, shaky world.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Completed Today:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And yes, I do know that I owe you a “completed today” as well. You may recall that yesterday I posted that: “Tomorrow I will begin by reading through and polishing the chapter completed today.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sadly, gentle readers, events have made me into a liar. I did not<\/span> begin by reading through and polishing. I woke up with two or three continuity threads niggling in my head and saying: these are important themes—you need to check now that you have all their houses in order before proceeding on to the endgame of the story (which, by the way, is effectively the part I’m now in.)\u00a0 So—gasp, shock—I began<\/em> with the continuity checking and once you begin a process like that you find a lot of additional little spin-offs that need to be checked and where necessary tidied up as well. Only then<\/em> did I review and polish the chapter I completed yesterday, half of which was new text (for which review\/polish is always an essential step.)<\/p>\n

And there you have it, dear readers: my working day!<\/p>\n

A little harder to quantify statistically, but here goes:<\/p>\n