NewBook isn’t *finished*, but it is complete in the sense of beginning, end, middle untangled so the segments are in the right order, some major side issues that belong in the long arc but not this volume sequestered for the next (or after that), and sufficient interior notes to do the next stage.<\/p>\n
So…what are we looking at?\u00a0 It starts the day the two major characters look down from adjoining mountains, one facing east, one looking south.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone in it–whom I thought I knew from the previous books–surprised me at least once and sometimes more than once in the course of the book.\u00a0 They showed up not when I expected them to, but when they just did.,..they were different than when I saw them last in Crown of Renewal.\u00a0 <\/em>Stuff has gone on behind my back, so to speak.\u00a0 Because of characters’ physical separation, while each character’s plot line is briskly going on about its business, there was “braiding” to be done in this first, structural, revision draft.\u00a0 Some of that may still be revised in the next revision draft.\u00a0 But most of the characters are people that veterans of Paksworld, especially the Paladin’s Legacy group, will know, will have seen before…just 5-6 years on from where they were in age, experiences, locations in some cases.<\/p>\n From here–as fast as I can make it happen–NewBook will get its second revision draft, which will deal with remaining structural issues (a few gaps, now clearly marked on the first revision draft) , and its first “construction” revision (where something needs to be built better, so to speak…design is fine but that bit right there is crooked or unsound)\u00a0 and then its third revision draft, which will deal with its more surface issues: the polishing part.\u00a0 Third draft should be ready to submit, after a final run past some readers.\u00a0 If the dental stuff hadn’t slowed me down, I’d be sure it would be done by Oct 1, but now I’m not…this dental thing is supposed to take several more days in the chair, I’ve been warned, and if they break the molar it will have to come out.\u00a0 Last time I had one pulled it cost me 4-5 days of misery & no work on anything.\u00a0 However, the later drafts usually (used to) go faster than the first revision, the structural one.<\/p>\n Once it’s clean enough to satisfy me, it goes to my agent, and if it passes him it goes out wherever he sends it (to start with, Del Rey, we’ve already decided) and I start the next one.\u00a0 Then the decisions are up to someone else, and I’ll just work on what’s next and hope for the best.\u00a0 It WILL come out in some form or other, if not from a trad publisher then Indie.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s certainly not perfect at this point, but it’s complete enough that I’m convinced it’s a real, and satisfying, story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right now I’m also having problems with my regular email but I can still access Earthlink’s WebMail, though the book is very close to its size limit on attachments, while Thunderbird was gulping it right down.\u00a0 Another thing to fix when I have time.\u00a0 No snippets today–apologies–but I have to feed horses, dress, etc. and get to the dentist this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NewBook isn’t *finished*, but it is complete in the sense of beginning, end, middle untangled so the segments are in the right order, some major side issues that belong in the long arc but not this volume sequestered for the next (or after that), and sufficient interior notes to do the next stage. 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