The book is more done now. It has an ending and better pacing and more focus. Enough of all the above? Unknown, to be confirmed through external channels. Though now I’ve found my endings I think I can more happily tweak the middle to point it in the right direction and lop off the bits [...]
As you may have guessed from my last utterly pointless waste of bytes, the writing, it does not go well. I think its something like rule 29 or such – ‘if you’re blogging, you’re not writing’. Especially if its idiotic blogging that involves both google earth and wikipedia (forging a time sink whole orders of [...]
The deathly silence is mostly my being productive (partially my playing Fall From Heaven) assimilating Alpha crits into whats now three sides of ‘things to do’. I think it can be fixed, we shall see. At worst, many lessons learned to date. I believe I will be following the Dragonpage rule of ‘write a book, [...]
Its midnight and I’ve just reworked the last of the ‘things I know I’ll use’ for a 72.3K count. Its been astonishingly rapid progress over the past few weeks, which is good, but I think its fast approaching the time to call it done and go for a first pass reedit. The bones of the [...]
Having my bi-decannual tilt at the windmill of ‘gonna write me a novel…’ and as part of that I’ve been rereading the first (97-98) effort which, amusingly, is a near future thing from back then which means its recent history now…