Category: Hawkspar

  • It’s the WORD “Schedule”

    Heard from Anna (my Tor editor). HAWKSPAR could go two ways—divided into two books because it’s so long (and the hardcover version of TALYN did not take over the world) or seriously cut and kept in one book. I’ve chosen option number two, because the book is one story, and cannot be made two stories,…

  • DONE

    Done, done, done with HAWKSPAR, it is off to my editor and my agent, and I am so happy. Also taking tomorrow off. Back Wednesday.

  • On 781. Still plugging.

    Today the type-in on HAWKSPAR has been as labor-intensive as I’d feared it would. But I’m making steady inroads, and my gut insists that a today finish is still possible. Last page now is 951, so the end has receded a little. Hard to imagine, considering the enormous amount of stuff I’ve ripped out. Anyway…onward.

  • Hit 650.

    Done for the day. Headache is getting rich and juicy. Back tomorrow for the last round.

  • Left Brain, Right Brain

    I can tell when, in my writing, I’ve switched from essentially left-brain work to full-on right-brain storytelling mode. My spelling goes all to hell. My left brain is a great speller, never confuses no with know or to with too or two, knows the rules of grammar and punctuation. My right brain, however, knows how…

  • Define WELL?

    Okay. I noted this morning that the type-in on HAWKSPAR was progressing well. Time to define “well.” Have been slogging the type-in all freakin’ day, and I’m now on page 169. Of 940. I forgot how heavily I’d rewritten the early chapters. Ugh.

  • HAWKSPAR type-in now in progress

    And progressing well. The goal, of course, is to finish today. It might be a long day, though.

  • Done with the HAWKSPAR write-in

    At 188,000 words. And way too fried to say anything else right now.

  • I’m dancing on air, just a little

    The HAWKSPAR revision is flying. It is beautiful, it is flowing, it’s the story my heart has been aching to get back to and finally I’m here, and the act of burying myself in the story and digging deep is better than I thought it would be. I’ve made massive progress this morning. I took…

  • The Schedule Thang

    So I get my revision notes from my editor for NIGHT ECHOES, along with the timeframe for getting it back to her. Oct. 1 is the date she writes, and I think, Great! Excellent. Enough time to do the final revision of HAWKSPAR, then do the final revision of NIGHT ECHOES, and still breathe. I…