So I’ve been working on this novel again. When I started, I projected that it would be finished by the end of this weekend. It looks like it’s going to be close, as I’m down to the last 60 pages or so and the heavy work is clearly done. Yeah, I know. I said the […]
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Catching up
So, among other things, I’ve been trying to increase my reading lately. In the past month I’ve gone back and read Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire, and now I’m a couple hundred pages into Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon–which, of course, means that I’ve got about 25 gazillion pages to go. I’ve also read a bunch of short […]
Read More ...Pressing Forward
A few words a day makes a difference, though in truth this morning saw very few actual new words. My story is global in nature and takes place in a fairly short span of time, so time zones make a difference. Under the guidelines that one should write like mad when the fire is burning, […]
Read More ...Exposition
Restructuring this novel has been interesting. I like its pace now, I like its transitions. I was thinking about this a couple days ago while I was mowing the yard. What was it that made me realize I hadn’t started in the right place to begin with? What was it that made me uncomfortable? It […]
Read More ...Do the Work
Good progress so far this week. It’s a simple equation: do the work. It’s part of a phrase a co-worker and I came up with to keep spirits up on times of high stress, but it fits here–no matter what, do the work and things work out. Somehow. In my case, doing the work each […]
Read More ...Circling
I feel like I’m circling around the heart of the book. It feels good, really. I’ve got some 30 or 40 pages put back together, but it’s obviously not started in exactly the right place. I feel like I’m out in the ocean, riding small waves into shore as a trial while the rest of […]
Read More ...A Week Off
Geez–it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? So, what’s up, you ask? Or, I guess, seeing that it’s just me and me here, I must be the one asking. The good news, though, is that I’ve been vacationing this week–but not really vacationing. You see, due to the discrepancy in our jobs Lisa has a bit less […]
Read More ...Finished
Galmour of the God-Touched is finally done and comes in weighing just over 92K words. It feels pretty good to get a book-length work to the point I feel good about it again. The rust is falling off, slowly but surely.
Read More ...Milestone Achieved
I don’t consider myself to have ever really stopped writing, though it looks like it from the outside, and I certainly stopped publishing. I’m thinking a lot about this lately as I draw to the end of this novel rewrite. If I come up with any great understandings about why I think this, I’ll let […]
Read More ...100 Pages
So I’ve gotten down to under a hundred pages to go. With only a little luck I’ll complete the rewrite by the end of next week. It’s been more work than expected because, honestly, my line writing was not very good. Strange how time gives you distance. There was a time where I would have […]
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