Category: Trainwrecks & Ghosts

  • 2109 words, and the first chapter completed

    And a nice little cliffhanger, for the characters AND for me. I wonder what will happen tomorrow.

  • A largish snippet from the Work in Progress

    The usual caveats apply. This is virgin (which means unread even by me) first draft. All typos and stupidities remain intact — I’ll get them on the second go-round, but right now I’m just writing. This is, in first draft, how the thing opens. Everything is subject to change. With that said, here are the…

  • 2123 words, and a nice start

    I may post a bit tomorrow, but I got a start that I like on this book. First going wasn’t easy, but the world is filling out nicely for me as I travel through it.

  • Time for a book in a month

    Not one of my full-sized 120,000-150,000 word novels, of course. This is a nice, sane, book in a month. Here are the stats on my goals. I want to write 60,000 words. That works out, at my current page layout, to 207 words per page, which rounds out to: 290 pages16 chapters — 18.125 pages…

  • Well, I found the theme

    At this late, late date, with my deadlines all gone to hell and Closer to Chaos living up to its title in ways I cannot even begin to describe, I have located the theme. The main, core, heart-and-soul theme of the whole goddamned thing, the rudder, the star by which to steer the ship. Love…

  • Grim, grimmer, grimmest

    Pretty much everything I’ve written on Closer to Chaos to this point is going to have to go. The reality of this is sinking is as I proof through Memory of Fire — CTC is not meeting my standards for coherent storytelling; there are things about it that I like, and I may managed to…