{"id":574,"date":"2010-01-19T23:43:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2010-01-19T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:43:35","slug":"less-than-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Less Than Two Months…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you ever wanted to see a writer doing the Dance of Nerves…well, no, it’s not on YouTube, and won’t be, but I remember thinking it would be forever<\/em> until the new book came out (and some of you thought the same thing) and here it is…almost.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, part of what made it seem so long was not having a book out in 2009.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Today I got my author’s copies of the Orbit Deed of Paksenarrion<\/em>, which is even thicker than the Baen omnibus.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile I finished one of the nonfiction projects (the wildlife management report) today and started on the next (essay for the exhibition catalog at Texas A&M–the exhbition showcasing their wonderful science fiction collection.)<\/p>\n

But I also worked in a few hours on Book 3, the new Arvid section, which is propagating Story in a lively way that I find encouraging.\u00a0 Book 3 is still in its fragile early stage, with waves of progress in this POV and then in that; it hasn’t yet coalesced into one coherent line of progress.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That should happen in another 10-15K at most, but I have to get past the other deadlines first.<\/p>\n

I think I mentioned (if not, here it is) that the necklace Arvid gave Paks in Brewersbridge shows up again in these books, with significance I didn’t know about back then.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not exactly what it appeared to be.\u00a0 Paks gave it to the Fellowship of\u00a0 Gird when she became a paladin-candidate, and it sat in the treasury in Fin Panir for years, until, in Oath of Fealty<\/em>, something happens, and in the Book 2 yet more happens.\u00a0\u00a0 Arvid’s fate crosses that of the necklace once again (or maybe twice again, given how things are going) and his self-definition is being challenged.<\/p>\n

Long ago,\u00a0 in an anthology that had disappeared from my hometown library when I went back to look for it, there was a story called “The Gnurrs Come From the Woodwork Out”…and I’m beginning to feel that way about gnomes, who keep showing up and becoming both obviously and mysteriously important to the story.\u00a0 Why gnomes and not dwarves?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0\u00a0 So far only one dwarf…dwarves are more colorful, more fun.\u00a0 Gnomes are…perhaps the legacy of my Calvinist great-grandmother.\u00a0\u00a0 If they’d been Christian (the gnomes, this is) they’d have been Calvinists.\u00a0 At least.)<\/p>\n

At any rate…work progresses, and I’m trying to keep my mind fixed on that, and not on the approaching release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you ever wanted to see a writer doing the Dance of Nerves…well, no, it’s not on YouTube, and won’t be, but I remember thinking it would be forever until the new book came out (and some of you thought the same thing) and here it is…almost.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, part of what made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[22,106,36,20,107],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-contents","tag-earthfolk","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}