I’m pleased. I got up sometime before six a.m. and by noon I’d finished the first 108 pages of the Midnight Rain type-in, which includes reading the manuscript again word-for-word, paging along in the hardcopy manuscript, and paging along in the notes to make sure I don’t overlook any of the Great IdeasTM that I had while doing the read-through. … Continue reading →
Damn, this was a rough one. Lots of continuity problems that come from having done this as three distinctly different book concepts over a period of about nine or ten years, and working on it this version alone for several years. A couple of really weak spots that are going to require all-new material on the type-in. Some nightmarish structural/conceptual … Continue reading →
The whole time I have been working my way through the revision of Midnight Rain, it’s been with the knowledge that the ending I wrote for the first draft was, at best, a placeholder — that it got my characters where they needed to be, but that it did not do it with any passion or depth or power. Today … Continue reading →
Judging from the e-mail this weblog has generated the last few days, there are more than a few of you who are confused about what freedom of speech is, and what it entails. So I’m going to be all enlightening and shit, and help those of you who have never come across this before find the Truth. This is a … Continue reading →
In Midnight Rain, I’ve crossed over from the material I wrote before I figured out the ending to the material I got after. Which means I’ve passed out of the zone where I’ll be likely to find fertile fields for expanding the story. Once I hit that switch point, the book took off and ran like an express train. So, … Continue reading →
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The Ghosts & Gremlins stuff and Talyn are ready to go. Package vetted, printed, wrapped, and delivery scheduled. So I’m going to get back to work tonight on Midnight Rain. Today has been a pretty productive day. … Continue reading →
I spent the morning doing a final spit-polish on the Ghosts and Gremlins material that I wrote some ages ago — with a new agent and some new direction, I want to get it out there and see if I can find a home for it. It’s fun stuff. I’ve needed to do something that has a strong element of … Continue reading →
I discovered the key into Midnight Rain‘s villain. It’s a structure thing — a way of writing him so that the readers can actually see who he is, which because of what he is, is damned difficult. Of course, it means some pretty extensive revision. Of course. It couldn’t have been something easy. So. Back to work. … Continue reading →