Writing update

[jpskewedthrone]

Managed to finish another chapter today on Well of Sorrows, so figured I'd do an update on the writing. The chapter went more or less as expected and I should only have 3 more chapters until the end of the novel. I'm certainly tying things up and did the big reveals in this chapter. So everything is on the table and now I just need to wrap up all of the action. A few pieces aren't clear to me yet, on exactly how they'll play out, but I had something occur to me today for two of the characters that was a revelation, but would be much more powerful than what I'd had planned before this for them. Mostly I know what I WANT to have happen, but I'm not clear on exactly HOW it happens.

Tomorrow, I get to hurt my main character more than he's ever been hurt before in this book. *grin* And the cool thing . . . he does it to himself, knowingly. Basically, everything has gone as far into hell as it can, and so from here on out it's everyone trying to fix the problem in whatever way they can.

OK, if you missed the radio interview that WSKG did with me yesterady, you can listen to it here. The streaming audio link is on the top right. Check it out and let me know how stupid I sound. *grin* I caught a little bit of it on the radio when it was rebroadcast but couldn't listen to it for too long before hearing my own voice (without the benefit of being drunk at the time) weirded me out and I turned it off. I don't think I screwed up in too many spots, but there were a few instance where the word I wanted to say just wouldn't come to me and so I had to go with something . . . lame instead. This is why I write and don't do improv. You can go back and delete the lame crap you wrote earlier and replace it with something better . . . AND NO ONE KNOWS.

In any case, here's my word count meter for the novel so far. Mock the meter! Mock the overabundance of words!

174,250 / 100,000 (174.2%)

Well of Sorrows

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Mock is such a strong word...

But because you're still not finished, and this one book is already longer than two of mine put together, I might snicker a little.

Or a lot. =)

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is definitely twice the words I really needed for a single book. But I already know I have chapters of suck to remove, so during revisions it should be cut down tremendously. Feel free to snicker. (It's because it's book 1 of a new series. Later books are usually less unruly.)

[writerknv.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's almost enough for TWO novels! Or Lord of the Rings! Or both! :)

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

It IS 2 novels! But it's a first novel, so there's lots of suck or backstory in there that I personally needed to know, but that doesn't need to go in the final version of the book. I already know of one chapter that will be removed entirely, and there are others that will be trimmed down to 1/10th of their first incarnation.

[writerknv.livejournal.com]

I find it much, much easier to cut than to add. My first novel was 160,000+ words, and now it's under 130,000 and probably could be trimmed again.

[jeanhuets.livejournal.com]

I saw you at Balticon and you were fine. Your voice was fine, and you didn't come across as lame. Then again, you also didn't come across as a Cruel Writing Deity, so I guess you fooled us all. LOL!

A few years ago, I did an interview on tarot for History Channel and thankfully it was prerecorded and edited, so I could stop in the middle of what I was saying and start over.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

That's what initially freaked me out about the live radio interview: it was live and couldn't be rerecorded. But I think it went fine. The voice . . . well, I've been told no one likes the sound of their own recorded voice. *grin*

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

You're a mathematician, you're supposed to be concise, not verbose! I'm taking away your AMS membership card!

Seriously, back in grad school I once got a membership card in the mail from the AMS. I started laughing so hard that not only was I a math geek, I was now a *card-carrying* math geek.

I still mock your verbosity. My dissertation was only 60 pages long, including end matter.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

AMS, MAA all of those "other" type of geek cards. But this mathematician is apparently verbose. My dissertation was 120+ pages. But I had tons of pictures, since part of it detailed a way to represent a mathematical structure graphically (which I used to prove that two categories of structures were actually equivalent and we were wasting time working on them separately).

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

That was quite an interview. I suppose now everyone will be rushing to sign up as a minion. I liked that discussion of math and magic too.