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Jun. 19th, 2006 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesProgress somewhat erratic last week, what with one thing and another. 900 words Tuesday, 1300 Wednesday, 400 Thursday, 400 Friday. No writing on Saturday and Sunday, because I was busy having a social life. It happens occasionally. 1200 words today. But I did get some useful research done last week, not least because ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
watervole and I spent some time talking over features of the Dorset coastline, satisfying me that the cave/quarry setup I want is plausible as something that _could_ exist, even if no such formation exists in real life. She kept an eye out during a walk at the weekend, and saw some real-life features that pretty much confirm that with the right cliff slippage something like I describe could exist unnoticed.
Interesting point in the fan mail letter yesterday - the writer mentioned Cherryh. Now, there is no way that the Chanur books could be an influence on First Footer, because I've never read them. I know just enough to recognise them as the likely source of the comment. The real, conscious influence when I was writing that novella was Andre Norton, although my felinoids aren't Salariki.I very seriously considered dedicating the book to her memory (I wrote it a few months after she died). I'll be interested to see if anyone picks that up without prompting. This might fit in with the current rasfc discussion on subtext and whether it can be said to be there if the author could not have had something in mind when writing the material...
watervole and I spent some time talking over features of the Dorset coastline, satisfying me that the cave/quarry setup I want is plausible as something that _could_ exist, even if no such formation exists in real life. She kept an eye out during a walk at the weekend, and saw some real-life features that pretty much confirm that with the right cliff slippage something like I describe could exist unnoticed.Interesting point in the fan mail letter yesterday - the writer mentioned Cherryh. Now, there is no way that the Chanur books could be an influence on First Footer, because I've never read them. I know just enough to recognise them as the likely source of the comment. The real, conscious influence when I was writing that novella was Andre Norton, although my felinoids aren't Salariki.I very seriously considered dedicating the book to her memory (I wrote it a few months after she died). I'll be interested to see if anyone picks that up without prompting. This might fit in with the current rasfc discussion on subtext and whether it can be said to be there if the author could not have had something in mind when writing the material...