1,768/25,465
Danged if I wasn’t pleased to get a mysterious reveal out and on the screen. Right after I realized what the mysterious reveal had to be. The ending of this book is gonna be somewhat different than the ending to the short story, let me tell you. Which is good, not that the original ending was bad; it’s just not what I need here.
1,602/23,697
A little under daily count, but I’m still a bit ahead of schedule because of earlier days. And I had run out of bits that had to be put in there. So there you go.
2,015/22,095
I… have discovered a stratagem. A ploy, if you like. I am plotting out the next bit using a particular suggestion, and the fact that I could speed along and get 2K words pretty quickly and easily suggests that said stratagem might actually work. We shall see.
The Sky-Blue Wolves is SM Stirling’s last book in the Change series. …Wow. I’ve been reading these books for twenty years, if you include the Nantucket trilogy as part of the series. Can’t quite believe that this is going to be the last one, but I guess he’s gotten everything out of it that he was going to get.
1,672, 20,080.
Finally powered through to finish Chapter 4. I also managed to shock the elf! The elf is perhaps a little bit more straight-laced than he thought that he was. I was amused by that.
He passed today. But Stan Lee showed them. He showed them ALL.
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Vignette’s done. Wondering whether to put it up at Patreon, let people see it. But it probably won’t make much sense to people, out of context. I dunno.
Now I gotta get back to the main story.
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So, learned something useful today. I absolutely got stuck on the narrative today. I have a formerly evil knife, I have a college that will have a boffin to look at it, and I have… not yet decided who the boffin is, why the knife is so important, and why the reader should care. So I stalled. But! I realized that the hero should have interviewed the parents of the victim, so I could get in my daily wordcount target on that. And once that’s done, I can put it into the main text and maybe get a better idea.
(I also need to write an outline.)
Anyway! Lo! The sausage-making process!
The Labyrinth Index is book 9 in Charles Stross’s Laundry Mythos-spy series. It’s quite fun to read, although I’m not enjoying it in the same, ah, visceral way that I believe Charlie intends. I imagine that people who began freaking out about current events after, oh, I dunno, June 23rd 2016 (and who graduated to raw terror and panic after November 8th of that same year) will find this book deeply scary; for my part, it’s just another The Horror At Red Hook. I’m just not scared by what scares the author, that’s all. But I can still enjoy the aesthetic, and this is a pretty good installment in the Laundry series.
I have a bunch of stories that could use revisions, editing, cleaning, or just revisiting because I sent them out last year, got them rejected, and then panicked and decided that they were ‘trunk stories’ and thus must be kept hidden until the Trump of Doom. Which is silly. They can’t earn for me if I don’t try to sell the dang things. So I decided to work on one tonight, in order to finish up tonight.
You gotta keep trying to publish, man. That’s like a Heinlein rule, right? I think it is, at least.
