Chapter 21 and Part 2 are now reviewed. I’m almost caught up with my alpha reader, so I can dial it back a little. Or possibly do five chapters tomorrow and wait for the rest. Either way, the goal is to be ready to get the manuscript ready for beta readers by the end of the week. Huzzah!
Category: Books
Patreon Microfiction: Marching Through Texas.
I kind of want to write the full story found in ‘Marching Through Texas,’ but I would undoubtedly get one of the buttons wrong and then everything would just go to Hell. I may write it, anyway. As the philosopher said: sometimes you just wanna lock the controls, and send the [expletive deleted]er right into the sun.
04/10/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
Chewed through the Vampire City, fixed it up all nice and proper, and… there are extensive reader notes on Chapter 20 and 21. I seem to recall feeling vaguely eager to speed on through, and get on to the next part. WELP, I’M GONNA PAY THE PRICE FOR THAT NOW!
Seriously, though, this is moving along pretty good. I might have the first write-through squared away by the end of next week. Then it’s beta-reader time!
04/09/21 Revision, MORGAN BAROD.
I am not precisely stuck on Chapter 17. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to change it. My first thought was there was going to be a crime, Morgan Barod thwarts it, there’s an execution of the criminal, then there’s a fight scene… it can’t be sustained by the timeline. So I’m just going to have the crime, the thwarting, and then the fight scene. Much more seamless all around.
04/08/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
So, I took a nap; and when I woke up, I realized that my alpha reader’s complaint about certain shenanigans in the Vampire City of Red Bank were in fact justifiable, and that I agreed with her. Fortunately, the nap also told me what to substitute for said shenanigans, which will allow me to keep both the fight scene and the… other one. So that’s what I’m likely working on this weekend. I’m also thinking of making the business at Red Bank this month’s Patreon story, so there’s that.
04/07/21 Snippet, PROCESSING DUTY.
A little low on wordcount, but the novel revisions took up some time.
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04/06/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
Finished Part I! Which was originally twice the size in the draft, but MORGAN BAROD is a three-part novel, not a two-part one. Also had to do some serious rewrites of one character there, but it was necessary. This is why alpha and beta readers are a thing: the book’s better, once I swallowed my pride.
I’ve started in on Part II, which is also “Morgan Barod and the Eldritch Tome” in TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION. Which means, naturally, that I am thoroughly sick of seeing it at this point. Edits and edits and more editing later…
04/05/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
Chapters 7 through 10. The next one is gonna require some serious revision, though: my alpha reader flat-out refused to buy the identity of one character. I’d fight it, except that she’s right, and we both know it. That’s gonna mean a name swap and some text rewrites, but that’s all right. They call them ‘drafts’ for a reason.
Excelsior!