Moe Lane

At 57K and change words, Frozen Dreams is below what I wanted, but I can probably build it up a little here and there anyway.  I’m still not done reviewing the final pieces, at that.  But one step at a time. At least I got the chapter out. It’s kind of crud, but at least it’s not ‘write something here’ crud.

It’s going a bit better now, although I have other deadlines looming.  Including a game session in two days.  End of month is always crunch time for me; I’d feel worse about that, except that I’ve been legitimately busy, the last few months. I figure that Frozen Dreams will still be ready to be showed around by the end of the month, and that’s the important thing.

Not going to bother with the word count, because at this point the wordcount is extraneous. I was able to take various suggestions and come up with a reason for the chapter, and it’s coming along now. Once it’s blocked out, then the rest is going to be trivial. …ish. (more…)

I am giving serious consideration to just compiling it, maybe after doing a summary of the boring crud that would happen in that chapter, and seeing what my alpha readers think.  The issue is, the characters think that they have to go to a particular place, but they happen to be wrong. I don’t mind wasting their time, but I do mind wasting the reader’s.

So I dunno.

Moe Lane

PS: The other problem is, somebody’s got to read the dang book before they can give me an opinion on how to fix this, methinks.

It’s not done, per se. But Frozen Dreams has been fully transferred to Scrivener, so as soon as I finish that one chapter, clean up the ones that I’ve simply transferred, and gotten the word count up to 60K, it’ll be ready for the next step.  Which is to say, compiling it to manuscript form.  That’s simultaneously cool, and alarming.

Of course, I have to finish that one damned chapter. It’s necessary, but it’s boring and I have nothing really for them to do there. I know; those two statements aren’t compatible, which is why I’m still trying to reconcile them. Hopefully after I hack something out my alpha readers can tell me what’s going wrong.

Moe Lane

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23-ish because I’m not done with a section of Chapter 22 of Frozen Dreams yet. Or Chapter 23, in fact. Had to put together about 1100 words to make stuff work, and it’s not done.  But we endeavor to persevere. (more…)

I’m comfortably ahead of my target numbers, I’ve been steadily revising this thing since the beginning of the year, and I need to write a decent amount of bridging material.  So I am giving myself permission to take the day off from preparing the next chapter.  I need to decide what’s happening in this chapter anyway, and why it’s important enough to share with the reader.  I want this book to not ramble like the first manuscript did. Or at least not ramble as much.

Going to have to add two scenes to Frozen Dreams; one tomorrow, and the other… maybe tomorrow, too.  Needed to put more into a particular character, and there’s a location that I never had the good guys visit.  If it was up to them they probably would, although they probably shouldn’t.

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Easy one today; nothing really needed to be added.  But there’s at least one scene that needs to be added, probably tomorrow.  Still.  We’re close to the end of the rough draft to Frozen Dreams. (more…)

Had to add more connective tissue to Frozen Dreams.  We’re still on track for 60K words, hey! Was expecting it to be more of a problem.

Snippet:

Here’s something that the Lore doesn’t tell you. Interrogations are boring. Exorcisms are boring. Combinations of both are boring. That’s because they’re run by cops and lawyers, and that crowd just loves boring stories where they already know what the ending is. If something new comes up at one of these things, somebody’s screwed up somewhere.