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Feb 19
Posted: under Contents, Kings of the North, snippet.
Tags: Contents, progress report, snippet February 19th, 2011
31 days (or 30 by the time most of you see this) and thus time for a snippet. In fact, a snippet from the very beginning of Kings of the North. I don’ t think, this close to release, that it’s going to be spoilerific for anyone.
Feb 15
Posted: under Crisis of Vision, Editing, Life beyond writing, Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: craft of writing, Life beyond writing, progress report, revision, the book business, the writing life February 15th, 2011
Today has been not-quite-typical but sufficiently full of writing stuff that you might find it interesting. Though it started not with writing stuff but with the car making odd noises the last time I had it out.
Feb 12
Posted: under Contents, Craft, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, craft of writing, progress report, the writing life February 12th, 2011
One of the difficulties of restarting a story last seen twenty years ago is that for readers who read the original books when they came out–even five or six years later–it feels as if there should be more time between Oath of Gold and Oath of Fealty than there is. Intellectually, these readers may grasp that the second Oath picks up where the first one left off, but they’ve experienced years in between and they aren’t the same readers they were when they finished the first three books.
Feb 08
Posted: under the writing life.
Tags: progress report, the writing life February 8th, 2011
Fifty thousand words on the new book, that’s what. The wordage rolled over this afternoon.
Feb 07
Posted: under Kings of the North, Life beyond writing, snippet, the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, progress report, snippet, the writing life February 7th, 2011
What?! I hear you cry. What do new chairs have to do with writing the book?
It’s one of the mysteries of the creative mind. Suffice to say that throughout our entire marriage (over 41 years now) we have never had “real” kitchen chairs. And now we do, replacing mismatched, aging, and uncomfortable folding chairs with real wood chairs that are up to our weights and sizes. Library chairs, in fact.
New chairs with new tablecloth & trial chair pad
Jan 28
Posted: under Life beyond writing, the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, progress report, the writing life January 28th, 2011
The major speed bump of the week, the big report I had to write, kept me away from Book IV a couple of days, though I wrote some after choir practice (staying up too late, after midnight, to finish a scene.) I didn’t want to leave Book alone that long, and Book definitely did not want to be left that long. By the time I finished the report, Book’s frustrations had taken over my brain and I was a very grumpy camper indeed. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 26
Posted: under the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, progress report, the writing life January 26th, 2011
As I warned y’all, the arrival of comments from Agent or Editor (or both) would result in a diversion of time from Book IV back to Crisis of Vision. Yesterday I got my agent’s comments on Crisis (there’s a chapter he thinks is weaker than the rest, but Editor isn’t there yet) and a heads-up that Editor was about halfway through and had found things she wanted to excise. So although I’m not starting on any fixes until I have all the comments in, some attention has shifted to that book and not this book. Thus downgrading (as the investment industry puts it) the projected output this week.
Jan 24
Posted: under Contents, the writing life.
Tags: characters, Contents, progress report, the writing life January 24th, 2011
Book IV is now just over 34,000 words. At the moment, it seems to be settled into a more relaxed pace as I figure out some details I hadn’t needed to know before. I have Tsaian dukes figured out, pretty much, but not all the counts and barons. Um….that would be none of the counts and barons, except the names of the ones on the Royal Council. Who’s hot-tempered? Who’s phlegmatic? Who leaps to conclusions? Etc. Moreover, who has a marriageable daughter?
Jan 22
Posted: under Life beyond writing, the writing life.
Tags: Life beyond writing, progress report, the writing life January 22nd, 2011
End of week, Book IV is just over 31,700. I made it to 10,000 (the week’s goal) by midnight Thursday and sort of loafed along on Friday and today.
Jan 20
Posted: under the writing life.
Tags: progress report, the writing life January 20th, 2011
I love it when the zeros line up (or at least I wave at them as I go by…) I just crossed the 3o,000 words marker (that includes the chunk moved from Crisis of Vision), with page length at 153. New production (written in the last two weeks) is 20,905 words , and 103 new pages of manuscript. Usually I wouldn’t stop in the middle of a workday to post here, but could not withhold the good news.
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