Revision city

[jhetley]

Starting in on GHOST POINT this morning, most of the stuff is simple mechanics, like figuring out how to make sure the reader knows about a gap of time without the blatant "Two days later, as they headed down the road..." (Which actually could work in a lot of stories, but doesn't really fit this book's style, being more omniscient narrator-voice than really tight third-person.) I'm working from back to front -- that makes life easier for the intrepid author, as the Nice Agent Lady referenced page numbers, and some of my changes will throw those all to hell.

Which also means that the _hard_ part, the cuts in Grendel's POV, gets put off as long as possible, as those come in the first four or five chapters.

But I can use that as avoidance from scraping paint on the front porch. As Dante pointed out, there is a gradation to the circles in Hell.

And anyone who has a painless solution for evicting or eradicating a yellow-jacket nest from the compost bin, please raise your hand. I got stung three times yesterday evening. Good thing I'm not allergic to _that_.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Giving this one some serious thought. According to Wife, these are more likely a fruit-eating species, but the same principle might work, substituting mashed apples or such....

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Yup same principle, but a little more tricky, because some birds will also go for fruit, and you probably don't want to poison the birds.

I'd think mashed banana or applesaucce + rose dust, packed in some sort of improvised container with an opening small enough to keep inquisitive birds away from the poison while letting the yellow jackets in to feast. Hmmm ... a single-serving milk carton or yogurt tub with a hole cut in it, maybe...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We were thinking about maybe a soda can -- the little bastards like to crawl into those and then sting unsuspecting humans on the lips when they go to drink....

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Perfect.

Let me know how it works out - I have a loathing for yellowjackets that's simply beyond reason. Kill, kill, kill!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I don't think anything up to and including species extinction is "simply beyond reason." Goes for blackflies, too.