Okay, maybe it was a silly deadline.ย I mean, 150 pages left to re-write when I had how many days to do it? But, as usual with me and a writing deadline–I’m done.ย Early.ย This is why I do deadlines. And the new total is (drumroll please)………………146,858 words! Much more manageable than 256,000, wouldn’t you […]
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Avoiding writing (again), I wandered Orson Scott Card’s Uncle Orson’s Writing Class.ย And just for the hell of it, clicked on the character naming article. First rule: No two characters in the same story can have their key name (i.e., the one most commonly referred to) start with the same letter or the same sound).
Squee!!!ย Meet the foundation of my galaxy, Captain Eve Marcori.ย And the center of HER galaxy, Dr. Ben Alexander. Someone asked if these were anime characters.ย Well no, they’re not.ย But they are drawn by an anime fan for an anime fan, so it’s not a surprise they could be, is it? Taro and Rafe
Not much writing tonight.ย But that’s okay, what I did get done was important. I’m in a tricky bit right now.ย It’s a definite turning-point for a lot of things in my book, and the way I had it before was too rushed, and didn’t make much sense. So I did what we chickens must
Yay!!!ย This weekend I finished and sent Chapter Seventeen, finished Chapter Eighteen, and possibly finished Chapter Nineteen.ย Hurray!! It helps that the writing is much better in the second half of the book, I can use more of what was already there…which makes me worry for the length of the book.ย If I’m not cutting
Thatsa Lotta Writing! Read More ยป
Hee, I hate to post another blog, that will put Taro and Rafe off the page.ย *sigh* But I guess I’m about due for a progress report.ย So. Eve’s manuscript is at 68,000 words.ย I’m on chapter sixteen.ย I have written a chapter a week, a couple times twice a week, and missed one week
I’m at it again.ย I thought it was just a bit of a break while I reconsidered the next few chapters–and it may well be–but tonight I’m worried again.ย I added 382 words to Eve tonight, and I’m not real happy with any of them. May is right around the corner.ย This is the year
Three Hundred Eighty-Two Read More ยป