The Last Four Pages
Nov 22, 2011 Daily Writing, Novels
If you’ve been following my highly sporadic twitter feed, you’ll know that I’m drawing near the end of a rewrite of one of my novel-length works. I have new plans for it given this modern age, so I’ve been going through and reworking it. And if you’ve been listening to my tweets you know that two days ago I “finished.”
Yeah, right.
I was still worried about the last chapter. This morning I’ve determined that the problem is not with the last chapter, but really just the last four pages. Of course, this is not really much better news as this story line leads to the next storyline (which is another book already in draft). A substantial change here will reverberate all the way down the line.
And, yet, that is what is so clearly needed.
Hmmmm …
Such is life, eh?
Strange
Oct 14, 2011 Daily Writing, Novels
Okay. I’ve avoided this long enough. This morning was spent going back to the novel project I set aside a couple months back. I’ve used the old “got to get a short story done” excuse a few times, and I’ve used the “got to read someone else’s stuff” excuse (just this morning, even). I’ve used the “I have day-job work to do” excuse way too often. Today was about just doing it.
And so I opened the hood and peered in and got to work.
I think one of the problems I have with this one is that in the root of my mind I think it has the chance to be something special. I’ve written a few novel-length works, all fairly standard fares. Good stories (I think), but not particularly unique beyond the events of the stories themselves. But this one is different. I’m not sure I’m good enough to write it as it needs to be written, and so it’s been easier to just let it sit there.
Strange, isn’t it, this writing thing?
“See the PEBA On $25 a Day” Released!
Jan 31, 2011 Business, Novels, See the PEBA
I’m excited to note that “See the PEBA” is now complete and has been released free to the community in many formats at Smashwords. You can find more information about it here.
Whew…
On to the next project, eh?
See the PEBA
Jan 17, 2011 Daily Writing, Novels, See the PEBA
Okay, it’s been a bit more than a month since the last update. Yeah, I’ve been busy, but this is the danged 2010′s right? No excuses for not frittering away my time here. Anyway, the news is that I’ve now completed the second draft of the baseball book, which, BTW, is now officially titled “See the PEBA for $25 a Day.”
It’s a strange little piece that I expect to discuss a bit more over the next couple days, but I’ll just say now that if you’re actually hanging around here these days you can expect to find a free copy available for download fairly soonish.
So, uh, yeah. Hang around, all right? [grin]
Draft Done!
Dec 13, 2010 Daily Writing, Novels
Call it a Ron-only Novel Dare. Call it a delayed NaNoWriMo. Call it what you will, but at the end of the day what I’ve actually got is a complete first draft novel in a total of 31 days–probably some 55K words.
Pretty danged cool.
I sat down to write this baseball-ish fantasy on November 10, and actually finished the draft last Friday, December 10. Even better, the structure is–in my opinion–pretty solid, and the story is clean. I’m pretty sure the second draft rewrite is going to be a breeze.
I tend to not talk about what I’m working on too much because I guess I’m one of those guys who doesn’t get much help from talking about it before the fact. But now that it was done, I told Lisa it was finished and we discussed parts of it. “You seem like you really enjoyed writing this,” she said at one point. And I did. I had a total blast. Better yet, I think writing this might really help me as I turn back to the more pure-SF thing I was working on before taking this detour. It really honed this sense of character in me. At least that’s the story I’m telling myself.
Anyway…
Between shoveling snow and whatnot, I started the re-write this morning. We’ll see where it goes.
[grin]
