*Almost* there.

I stalled hard last night, not knowing what to do with the next scene. Having re-read the entire thing today, I ended up swapping the upcoming bit with the previous A-strand scene; the information the new one was going to convey really needed to go earlier in the story than where I was trying to put it. There's a godawful Frankenstein seam thanks to the swapping -- wow, is that earlier-now-later scene going to have to change -- but I think it's closer to working.

(No, I don't expect that to mean anything to anybody, but it makes me feel better to type it out for posterity.)

1500 words tonight, two and a half scenes to go, but it's bedtime for me, because I have to figure out how they're going to mug this guy. Right now it's more of a curb-stomping scenario than anything else; there'll be no chance to do anything interesting with Our Heroes because their target will be a smear on the ground before they can say boo. Must stage it in non-obviously contrived way. But after that it's pretty much just dual denouement time, so I think -- I hope -- I can finish this tomorrow.

<crosses fingers>

It may even have a title, though I wouldn't be sure of that if I were me.

Only the gods are beyond *our* comprehension.

This is an interesting chart -- we say "it's Greek to me," but what do the Greeks say? (Arabic, it turns out.) What about the Arabs? (Hindi.) And a crap-ton of cultures point at Chinese for sheer buh? factor.

But the punch line? Apparently the only language the Chinese feel is utterly beyond them . . . is the language of Heaven.

On the (internet) radio!

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I haven't listened to it myself (other than, y'know, while it was happening), so I have no idea how this turned out. But we had fun. For my part, you can listen and find out such gems as what I think of "writer's block," and which false dichotomy I reject! (I think it was the same one I rejected at VeriCon, actually; I recycle my smart-ass lines. Waste not, want not. ^_^)

Edited to add: Gah! I had the speakers off on my computer, so didn't notice the player automatically starts up. That's deeply obnoxious -- to the point where I think I may tell the folks responsible for it that they should change the settings ASAP. Anyway, my apologies for the victims of it before I put in the LJ-cut.

Edit #2: I've found the auto-start in the code and killed it.

Novella!

17,615 words and counting.

Stupid novella.

Almost done, though.