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Life Hates Me . . . Or At Least My Book
Aug. 17th, 2006 07:57 pmSo today I planned a full day of writing, right? HA!! I can lay total (well, not total, perhaps partial) blame at my mother's doorstep. See, I was ready to start (after spending a tad too much time on the internet doing nothing much) when I decided to call my mom. There was some info I needed to pass along. I started the conversation with, "I need to get writing so let's make this quick."
An hour and a half later, I finally get off the phone. But with jobs to do. My brother's wedding is coming up next weekend and I now needed to run errands to see if I could find possible wedding gifts on the fly at the last minute . . . and cheap. *sigh* So instead of sitting down to write this morning, I talked to my mom, then ran errands. I did get 2 of the weddings gifts covered, bought myself consolation chocolate (chocolate covered peanuts at the local nut shop), and then decided I should try a few corrections/updates to writing files before lunch. So I did get SOME writing work done this morning, just not much.
After lunch, I forced myself to sit down and write (because of course my body and mind had decided by this point that it wasn't a writing day and had kicked back to relax). Good thing I'd ended the previous work practically in mid-sentence. In fact, mid-seizure of one of the characters. So I finished the seizure scene (these are just SOOOO fun to write . . . and it's not Varis seizing all you readers out there nodding your head) and got the damn ship to the freakin city. Finally. Of course, now the chapter is ending in a different spot than expected (I'll finish it tomorrow . . . if Life doesn't intervene is some other unexpected way) and stuff I thought would be in this chapter will get moved to the next. But one of the plot lines begun in chapter 1 will have tied itself off, which will be good.
Because the first thing I thought when I woke up this morning was (and this is never good): You forgot about Heddan. Heddan is a character I introduce in book 3 and she didn't appear ANYWHERE in this chapter, even though she'd be there. So I had to reread the rest of the chapter today as well and insert her into the scenes in some meaningful way. I've discovered that I don't like lots and lots of characters, especially when they would all appear in the same scenes. They're just too hard to keep track of. And dialogue tags become HUGE. Lots of characters that only interact with each other in groups of twos and threes are fine. When the groups include five of them . . . BLECH!
I think that's one of the strengths of the throne books. They aren't about hundreds of characters spread over the entire world all trying to save said world. There are few characters, and for the most part they're just trying to save their own asses.
Anyway writing commenced, to the point where I did NOT want to stop writing to go to the gym. I left off in mid-sentence again, so should be able to pick up and carry on tomorrow, finishing the chapter before lunch. I also need to check the fitting on my recent suit purchase for said brother's wedding. Here's the wordage:
Vacant Throne
Thanks everyone for the helpful critiques on the postcard summary! I think I've got it done now, or will tomorrow when I click that button that says "purchase" and my checking account gets sucked dry. Twice as expensive as the last time . . . because I have 2 books out now of course.
An hour and a half later, I finally get off the phone. But with jobs to do. My brother's wedding is coming up next weekend and I now needed to run errands to see if I could find possible wedding gifts on the fly at the last minute . . . and cheap. *sigh* So instead of sitting down to write this morning, I talked to my mom, then ran errands. I did get 2 of the weddings gifts covered, bought myself consolation chocolate (chocolate covered peanuts at the local nut shop), and then decided I should try a few corrections/updates to writing files before lunch. So I did get SOME writing work done this morning, just not much.
After lunch, I forced myself to sit down and write (because of course my body and mind had decided by this point that it wasn't a writing day and had kicked back to relax). Good thing I'd ended the previous work practically in mid-sentence. In fact, mid-seizure of one of the characters. So I finished the seizure scene (these are just SOOOO fun to write . . . and it's not Varis seizing all you readers out there nodding your head) and got the damn ship to the freakin city. Finally. Of course, now the chapter is ending in a different spot than expected (I'll finish it tomorrow . . . if Life doesn't intervene is some other unexpected way) and stuff I thought would be in this chapter will get moved to the next. But one of the plot lines begun in chapter 1 will have tied itself off, which will be good.
Because the first thing I thought when I woke up this morning was (and this is never good): You forgot about Heddan. Heddan is a character I introduce in book 3 and she didn't appear ANYWHERE in this chapter, even though she'd be there. So I had to reread the rest of the chapter today as well and insert her into the scenes in some meaningful way. I've discovered that I don't like lots and lots of characters, especially when they would all appear in the same scenes. They're just too hard to keep track of. And dialogue tags become HUGE. Lots of characters that only interact with each other in groups of twos and threes are fine. When the groups include five of them . . . BLECH!
I think that's one of the strengths of the throne books. They aren't about hundreds of characters spread over the entire world all trying to save said world. There are few characters, and for the most part they're just trying to save their own asses.
Anyway writing commenced, to the point where I did NOT want to stop writing to go to the gym. I left off in mid-sentence again, so should be able to pick up and carry on tomorrow, finishing the chapter before lunch. I also need to check the fitting on my recent suit purchase for said brother's wedding. Here's the wordage:
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58,275 / 100,000 (58.3%) |
Vacant Throne
Thanks everyone for the helpful critiques on the postcard summary! I think I've got it done now, or will tomorrow when I click that button that says "purchase" and my checking account gets sucked dry. Twice as expensive as the last time . . . because I have 2 books out now of course.
