Progress on the NEW new book–the one after the one that will be published next (which is, other than editor-requested revisions and production-related work–done.<\/p>\n
Total wordage at the moment: 61,000 words.<\/p>\n
New wordage (yesterday and today) 1700+ words continuous, plus some fill-in bits here and there.<\/p>\n
As some of you know from my LJ and SFF.net newsgroup postings, most of this was written when I thought it was part of the “old” new book, Blood and Bone<\/em>. Yes, if you’re going full-blast it’s possible to write almost 60,000 words past the end of a book…sort of like skidding past a stop sign. Now I need to get back up to speed…this gives me a nice start on the next book, which means I could finish it faster than the contract demands. That would be good for all of us. If it’s about the same length as the one I just did, this is just over a third of it. I’ll start pushing for 2000 words\/day after Christmas. Or maybe today.<\/p>\n Surprise has already landed on me–I thought things were going smoothly in a certain quarter but discovered last night that Someone doesn’t like Someone else’s father, and this is going to put a very large monkey-wrench in the works.<\/p>\n Monkey-wrenches in the works make for good plots later on, but still…I wanted this one thing to work smoothly and monkey wrenches to cause a problem somewhere else.<\/p>\n You may now return to your regularly scheduled Sunday programming. (I’m home today for two good reasons, neither of them relevant to the topic.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Progress on the NEW new book–the one after the one that will be published next (which is, other than editor-requested revisions and production-related work–done. Total wordage at the moment: 61,000 words. New wordage (yesterday and today) 1700+ words continuous, plus some fill-in bits here and there. As some of you know from my LJ and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}