Got the wordcount for the latest chapter of Frozen Dreams up a bit, this time. Things are also starting to move along, here. I must remember to put my hero in still more trouble, because that’s adventure, right? Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Five: 5 Chapters / 9,844 words.
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Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Four: 4 Chapters / 7,729 words.
Let’s see if this loads. My area’s internet has been in and out for the entire day. AND WHY YES THAT HAS BEEN A JOY THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Four: 4 Chapters / 7,729 words.
Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Three: 3 Chapters / 5,802 words.
Experimenting with setting up scenes in Scrivener and whatnot. I use it a lot for short story submissions, but Frozen Dreams is the first novel. It takes some getting used to.
Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Three: 3 Chapters / 5,802 words.
Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Two: 2 Chapters / 3,849 words.
And I’ve already realized that, dang, the hero should really interview the cleaning staff and the last people to use the room that the murder was in. Like, duh, this is a murder mystery, right? Makes you wonder what I was thinking. On the bright side, that will allow me to establish some stuff for later on while getting my wordcount up as a bonus. Frozen Dreams is a bit sparse in that regard. Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Two: 2 Chapters / 3,849 words.
Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day One: 1 Chapter / 1,901 words.
I’m doing this as part of the ‘motivate me to actually turn 50K words into a no-fooling novel” process. Because writing the stuff is sometimes the easiest part. Hopefully, the process will accelerate as I go on, but today I have a baronial newsletter to write so I can’t spend the afternoon processing three or four chapters.
Anyway: the working draft of Chapter 1 is in Scrivener. Or ‘first draft.’ Or ‘rough draft;’ I don’t actually know the terminology all that well. :brightly: That’s why they call this a learning experience!
Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day One: 1 Chapter / 1,901 words.
Book of the Week: Empire of Man (March Upcountry Omnibus 1).
David Weber and John Ringo’s* Empire of Man military science fiction series was great fun: if you’ve never read it, Empire of Man (Books 1 & 2) and Throne of Stars (Books 3 & 4) have been collected for your amusement. Worth your time to peruse, if you haven’t. Although I imagine that Weber / Ringo fans are not exactly under-represented among my own readers…
*I originally wrote that as ‘David Ringo.’ Which is not a slam, I swear.
Tweet thread of the Day, That Wasn’t C.S. Lewis’s Point, Dagnabbit edition.
@KatinOxford has had it with simplistic complaints about Susan Pevensie and The Last Battle. Absolutely had it. So she brought the thunder.
Many moons ago (I think like two weeks) I gave you guys a semi-drunk thread on why you are all wrong about Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia.
Here is my more eloquent scholarly thread on why you all are still wrong about Susan Pevensie. *rustles up academic papers*
— Kat Coffin Head of the Tortured Scholars Dept. (@KatinOxford) December 27, 2018
She brought it so hard that almost nobody’s dared to argue back. Not that they should, because her argument is so self-evidently correct it’d almost be silly to try.
Books of the Week: The Trail of Glory series.
The Trail of Glory is Eric Flint’s alternate history series about the Cherokee, and I’d love to know why it hasn’t been finished yet. I’m pretty sure that there’s something going on, there, only I don’t know exactly what. Which is a shame, because it was turning out to be a ripping adventure yarn.
Book of the Week: The Masked City.
The Masked City is Genevieve Cogman’s second book in her Invsible Library fantasy series (involving functionally immortal agents of a powerful Library who have access to the source language of the universe*). I should have put this one a while back, but I got distracted and am only now taking up the series again. It’s quite fun! And I like Genevieve. People should buy her books when they come out, and say nice things to her at conventions. Continue reading Book of the Week: The Masked City.
Well, this is awkward: all of the books I read this week…
…were either ARCs or Kickstarter rewards. I’ve been trying to think of a more exploitable suitable book for the last few days, and I’ve absolutely drawn a blank. I dunno. Recommendations?