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Meanwhile, the book progresses, in spite of all delays, interruptions, and excitements wanted and unwanted.\u00a0\u00a0 Agent’s comments on the first 150 pages led to\u00a0 some work on background and foundation, expanding the first chapter (which will make the actual leading edge of the book easier, since I now know more about some other people who are going to be secondary characters during the mmph and ummph.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An email exchange with another writer\/acquaintance with expertise in one area led to rethinking an early incident in the plot (the difficulty of landing an inflatable life raft on a rocky coastline is…worse than I thought from other things I’d read.\u00a0\u00a0 Doing it twice without killing everyone won’t be believable to those with experience, so I’m changing that bit–you never read it, so it never existed, so my saying it existed is…legend.\u00a0 Just legend.\u00a0 Mistaken legend.<\/p>\n
I will lose some of the words already written when I\u00a0 rearrange that part of it (not doing it quite yet because I’m working on that early part Agent said needed more of what it did, in fact, need more of)\u00a0 but it should also make a more rapid advance thereafter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the moment, it’s at 172 ms. pages, 33,375 words (according to Word)\u00a0 and I hope to spend some solid time on it tomorrow.<\/p>\n
There are, so far, several familiar POV characters–Ky, Stella, Rafe, and Grace Vatta, still Rector of Defense on Slotter Key.\u00a0\u00a0 In story time, Ky is in a life raft in a cold ocean, Stella is 90% convinced she’s dead,\u00a0 Grace has been trying to locate her but running into roadblocks that suggest something more sinister than a shuttle going down, and Rafe is trying to locate her from too great a distance and then determines to come closer.\u00a0 A number of important people have already died, and story logic is pushing me to off a couple more.\u00a0 I don’t want to.\u00a0 On the other hand, that red shirt is pretty clearly a red shirt.\u00a0 If you’re going to assassinate X in a nefarious plot, then either X’s aide is part of the plot, or will also be a target.\u00a0\u00a0 And my saying “But I like<\/em> X; I was just getting to know<\/em> X; X will be very useful<\/em> to Y…”\u00a0 is not enough reason to ignore story logic.\u00a0 X may be called in for an little chat with X’s writer, wherein X will declare for “co-conspirator” or “victim.”\u00a0\u00a0 Sort of like being called in for a little chat with Lord Vetinari in a Discworld book.\u00a0 Some characters opt for noble death; others decide that actually, all along, they were part of the dark side.\u00a0 Or maybe, in the meantime, X will just do something stupid, fall out of the lifeboat, and be impaled on the giant pufferfish.\u00a0 (Yes,\u00a0 there is a giant puffer fish.\u00a0 Don’t tell anyone else.\u00a0\u00a0 It might not be there in the final book.\u00a0 But the scene in which the giant puffer fish…er….mmph…)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …but the cleanup remains a work in progress.\u00a0 MOST of\u00a0 it was done (by sundown today) but the final packaging of leftovers for the freezer, not so much.\u00a0 I sort of fell over in mid-afternoon and slept for two hours.\u00a0 THUD.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We had wonderful guests, who brought wonderful contributions to the feast, and several of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}