Dec 04
Posted: under Background, Contents, the writing life.
Tags: Background, Contents, progress report, the writing life December 4th, 2009
A productive, 2000-word day, in which I finished the POV section I’ve been working on. A Halveric sergeant and a couple of tensquads meet the unsurvivable and survive. Well, sixteen of them survive. For awhile, anyway. My view of Halverics has always been from the Phelan side…and I thought they were more alike than they […] [...more]
A productive, 2000-word day, in which I finished the POV section I’ve been working on.
A Halveric sergeant and a couple of tensquads meet the unsurvivable and survive. Well, sixteen of them survive. For awhile, anyway. My view of Halverics has always been from the Phelan side…and I thought they were more alike than they are. (More spoiler warning!)
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Dec 03
Posted: under Background, Contents, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, progress report, the writing life December 3rd, 2009
Fewer words (1000) today, as I paused to deal with other writing-related chores, including fine-tuning the timeline for the series of battles. And then there was the trip to the city, so M- could ice-skate and I could not-fence and instead sprawl on the couch and discuss various writer-things with DRW (whose comments on crossbows […] [...more]
Fewer words (1000) today, as I paused to deal with other writing-related chores, including fine-tuning the timeline for the series of battles. And then there was the trip to the city, so M- could ice-skate and I could not-fence and instead sprawl on the couch and discuss various writer-things with DRW (whose comments on crossbows you have, I hope, read) and J- and C-. Spoilers will appear below the cut, so choose your level of preferred knowledge.
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Dec 02
Posted: under Contents, the writing life.
Tags: new content, plot bombs, progress report, the writing life December 2nd, 2009
3061 words today. That battle I was talking about? It’s unfolding rather differently than I planned originally, but better. To argue with the A-Team “I love it when a plan comes together”—I love it when my plot-daemon knows better than I do what should happen. [...more]
3061 words today.
That battle I was talking about? It’s unfolding rather differently than I planned originally, but better. To argue with the A-Team “I love it when a plan comes together”—I love it when my plot-daemon knows better than I do what should happen. Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 16
Posted: under the writing life.
Tags: earthfolk, plot bombs, progress report November 16th, 2009
Book three is being a bit slow to start, due to all the other stuff going on and also some deep thinking. But it’s at 5600 words (roughly–not exact count) as of this morning, with over 1000 words added today. [...more]
Book three is being a bit slow to start, due to all the other stuff going on and also some deep thinking.
But it’s at 5600 words (roughly–not exact count) as of this morning, with over 1000 words added today.
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Nov 08
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, progress report, revision, the writing life November 8th, 2009
Even though I just found yet another unfixed rough spot in the new book, Book Two is almost certain to take off for NYC and its Editor tomorrow. What rough spot, you ask (thinking, surely this writer has filed off all the rough spots and polished them smooth by now…) [...more]
Even though I just found yet another unfixed rough spot in the new book, Book Two is almost certain to take off for NYC and its Editor tomorrow. What rough spot, you ask (thinking, surely this writer has filed off all the rough spots and polished them smooth by now…)
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Nov 06
Posted: under Life beyond writing, Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: progress report, revision, the writing life November 6th, 2009
Alpha-reader K.S. called up this evening, having seen the very latest draft, with a major motivation-hole to report. I smothered my intense desire to waily-waily-waily-o-no-o-woe and actually listened to what she said, which was similar to what a couple of you had said, but expressed in a way that suddenly made complete and total sense. […] [...more]
Alpha-reader K.S. called up this evening, having seen the very latest draft, with a major motivation-hole to report. I smothered my intense desire to waily-waily-waily-o-no-o-woe and actually listened to what she said, which was similar to what a couple of you had said, but expressed in a way that suddenly made complete and total sense. (She has this gift. I think we were separated at birth or something. Or maybe, having fixed so many other problems, my mind was uncluttered enough to Get It.)
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Nov 04
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: progress report, revision, the writing life November 4th, 2009
Now at page 760, though I left some unfinished business a couple of chapters back…needed more stewing over. For one thing, the chronology of the various POVs, though accurate, is reading “off.” This is always the most difficult part, for me, of writing in multiple viewpoints…the viewpoint shifts can’t violate the real chronology of the […] [...more]
Now at page 760, though I left some unfinished business a couple of chapters back…needed more stewing over. For one thing, the chronology of the various POVs, though accurate, is reading “off.” This is always the most difficult part, for me, of writing in multiple viewpoints…the viewpoint shifts can’t violate the real chronology of the story but at the same time, exact one-to-one correspondence would make the book full of “Meanwhile, back at the ranch” paragraphs every page or so. Sections must be long enough to give flow, but not so long that the next POV change requires a flashback-type transition.
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Nov 03
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: progress report, research, revision, the writing life November 3rd, 2009
Reached 497 just now, with the word count for the whole coming down slowly. Here’s an example for discussion: A courier arrives with an urgent message. While the courier catches his breath, the recipient opens the message case. [...more]
Reached 497 just now, with the word count for the whole coming down slowly.
Here’s an example for discussion: A courier arrives with an urgent message. While the courier catches his breath, the recipient opens the message case.
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Oct 30
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: progress report, revision, the writing life October 30th, 2009
Local experienced alpha reader, having read the latest (until this morning) version of a chapter, thought it much improved but still needing a tweak or two. And finally got it through my head exactly what was bothering him. [...more]
Local experienced alpha reader, having read the latest (until this morning) version of a chapter, thought it much improved but still needing a tweak or two. And finally got it through my head exactly what was bothering him.
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Oct 25
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, mistakes, plot bombs, progress report, revision, the writing life October 25th, 2009
About three days ago, one of those ideas hit me that could be really good, sort of interesting, or not at all the right move. It’s very spoiler-full, so here’s your first spoiler warning…if you don’t like spoilers, skip this post. [...more]
About three days ago, one of those ideas hit me that could be really good, sort of interesting, or not at all the right move. It’s very spoiler-full, so here’s your first spoiler warning…if you don’t like spoilers, skip this post.
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