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Category Archives: Gods Old and Dark
More On the Midnight Rain Sale
Okay, I know a little more now. The manuscript for Midnight Rain will be due April 15, 2004. Probably will be on the schedule in 2005, but I don’t know exactly when yet and won’t for a while. Contracts are on the way, which is very, very fast. So. My writing schedule looks like this. 135,000 more words on Talyn … Continue reading →
When In Doubt, Drop Back and Punt
I’m making real progress again on Talyn. Got a 1500 word net gain yesterday in spite of removing a solid chunk of text. I did it by going back to exactly the point where things went badly wrong, and writing the scene I should have written the first time. Sometimes I can pretend I got it right and just keep … Continue reading →
Finished Editor’s Revisions on Gods Old and Dark
:: celebrating :: Tomorrow I print, the next day I mail. In the meantime, I’m going to get into that line-for-scene thing for Talyn. … Continue reading →
Down to the last new scene in Gods Old and Dark
I’ve been plugging away on editor-requested revisions for the better part of the month, and I’m finally down to the last new scene that I have to write (and in fact when I quit today I was halfway through it). After completing it, I have two more scenes total to revise — I think I’ll be able to finish the … Continue reading →
Ack, ack, ack, eeeuww!
Every once in a while, working your way through a revision, you’ll notice that you’ve reused a phrase two or three times, or, if you really weren’t careful, more. In Gods Old and Dark, I had six — count ’em, six — instances of ‘sad smiles’, which has to be a recent record for pounding a phrase into the ground. … Continue reading →
Slogging Gods Revisions
I’m about to the end of the revisions for Gods Old and Dark — at least that’s what the ever-shrinking pile of paper to my left would attest. I’m doing a new scene right at the moment, setting up Raymond Smetty and Louise Tate for their eventual just desserts. (I left their fate hanging in the first version, and my … Continue reading →
In A Quiet House
Over the last couple of days, we moved Becky into her own place, then shifted things around here to make use of what had been her room. Mark is still visiting with relatives. I’m working at getting my feet back under me, realizing that things have changed for keeps this time; I’m getting up early, concentrating on revisions for Gods … Continue reading →
Gah! Revisions!
Know how I said I liked to do revisions? How I enjoyed being able to go in and fix up the stuff that was already down on paper? Lies, foul lies, all of it. At least this time. I’d say that editor-requested revisions on Gods Old and Dark were proceeding apace, but then we’d have to define ‘apace’ as ‘dragging … Continue reading →
In spite of everything, the book is almost finished
The schedules of the rest of my family have been nearly impossible to work around, my mood has been grim and crappy, but Midnight Rain is close to completion. I’m hoping that the five-year-old will play quietly for a while so that I can work on it today — I’m within striking distance of wrapping the rewrite up, and I’d … Continue reading →
