Tag: book report

Slowly but surely, the meta-narrative is being untangled. I’m now debating whether to show another character again (but not kill him) before the climax. Perhaps I should.

• 69.4K words.
• Figured out what the Hell is going on with a particular scene.
• Finally got rid of a passage that simply stated [Explain what the Hell is going on.]

I’m starting to ask myself if this book’s gonna be much longer than seventy thousand words. I don’t wanna pad it out. I also don’t want to starve it, either.

• 68.5K words.
• Killed off a character. Now am out of characters to casually kill off.
• Pretty much it.

More productive than I thought.

• 67.9 K words.
• I think I’ve straightened out a lot in the most important chapters.
• Added some more explanations and whatnot.

Not too bad a day.

• 65.8K words.
• Introduced new character.
• Killed off loose end.
• Maybe/maybe didn’t kill off another character. We’ll see!

At this rate, we’ll end the month with a manuscript ready for the beta readers. Weird.

Went better than I expected, actually:

• Actually resolved what happened to a character that I had frankly forgotten about.
• Introduced a character.
• New word count: 64.4K.

Did a few things.

• Wrote about four hundred words or so for a new opening.
• Freaked out about how much editors cost.
• Calmed down, asked around, figured out that editing websites like to freak new writers out about editing to get them to spend money.
• Still realized that editing was probably going to be an expense. And maps.

I also dealt with an early school dismissal (and the shutdown of the federal government in DC), so I didn’t do a few things more. Tomorrow.

Had to power through. Glad I did.

• Got last four chapters done.
• Got first quote on illustration/book cover. Below budget! …I had to restrain myself from saying You saw that your quote is below my original stated budget, right? I guess I assumed that the original budget amount would be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Gimme a break, I’m new to this.

Nothing to report. I needed to break down my kid’s old bed and put together a new one. I did this. Then, I took a nap. The Dad-Force was strong in me today.