This is going more slowly than I’d like. I’m apparently distracted right now. GO FIGURE.
Tag: marie and the continent
06/11/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
I am starting to contemplate the minor issue that I am not really what you would call well-trained in writing Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries. I may need to start adding more distractions.
06/10/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
Speaking of snippets, there’s perhaps some snip in Marie’s tone. Just a touch, really. She doesn’t actually mind Bell, but it’s been a long couple days’ worth of travel and the dead don’t travel that fast. Ooh, I should work that in somewhere!
06/09/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
This is gonna have to get so much revising, in the second draft. But the trick is to get the damned first draft down first.
06/08/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
Back in the saddle again. Jumping around, too. New characters must be introduced.
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Today I did something that I should have done a while ago. I figured out what the hell the mystery was in the middle section of the damned book. Winging it is a great way to spark creativity, if you’re doing up a gaming scenario or even a vignette; as a method of novel-writing it leaves much to be desired. But I fixed my problem easily enough by scribbling out about four hundred words on what the situation was, what the good guys were like, and what the victory conditions were.
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I need to do some serious structural work on this part of the book. I was going to get that done today, but then my kid’s computer decided to start sparking…
06/03/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
I had to buckle back down to work, because the work does not stop.
05/28/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
I did not quite hit numbers today. Trying to figure out margins took up a large portion of the evening.
05/27/2020 Snippet, MARIE AND THE CONTINENT.
I am probably going to have to kill that one darling.