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Category Archives: The Wreck of Heaven
Soundtracks for Novels
There’s a discussion about the music writers listen to while they write. I put together soundtracks that help focus me on the story, but that I think may influence the mood and shape of the books, too. But I thought this might be of interest to readers as well as writers — to have the same soundtrack running in the … Continue reading →
STET Stamp Redux
I still have two thirds of The Wreck of Heaven to get through, so my writing creativity today is pretty much limited to angle of placement and force of attack with the STET stamp. Okay — so what is a STET stamp? For that matter, what is STET? Writers get a final call on what is and what is not … Continue reading →
Me and My STET Stamp
I get to work today, but I do not get to write today. I have fallen behind in prepping the copyedited manuscript of The Wreck of Heaven for its return to Eos, so today I just need to sit and read and make those requested changes that I agree with and STET commas. I STILL haven’t used the STET stamp. … Continue reading →
Days off make me twitchy
I took my day off, and got a lot of site stuff done, and now I’m hitting the book. As planned, today is Molly and Baanraak, and I’m enjoying their issues. God, do they both have issues. I’ll get my 2000, then hit the revisions that I haven’t been able to touch the past few days because of babysitting — … Continue reading →
2,162 words, and a nice cliffhanger
Moved the story forward quite a way today in spite of obstacles. I had to pull out some of what I wrote yesterday, because I had an idea for increasing conflict and tension and decided to run with that when I got to work this morning. Plus, I’m having to work in enough backstory that people picking up this volume … Continue reading →
Goal for today: 72,635
Today the hero, now heading toward the heroine and the killer at top speed, goes through the gauntlet in an attempt to reach her before it’s too late. The book is going to end up short, I think, necessitating the addition of at least one subplot and a significant rewrite. I may end up having to let the first draft … Continue reading →
Almost done with the site
Yesterday, my finest site hour — I got the damned template and comments for this page to work. I’ve been slogging links on the site, and reformatting pages to CSS so that the next time I want to completely redesign the site, I’ll be able to do most of it with the push of a couple of buttons. I’ve been … Continue reading →
Done!
I’ve finally finished typing in all the revisions on The Wreck of Heaven. I replaced or rewrote a huge amount of the book — I didn’t know how much until I started typing changes in. Even in this final phase, the thing remained the Book that Would Not Die. But it’s done now, and I’m glad to be done with … Continue reading →
And the word for today is “frustration”
I have the site mostly switched over, but it keeps waffling back and forth — still hasn’t finished propagating across the net, apparently. So sometimes links work, and sometimes they don’t. The community software is EVIL. Great software, it will do beautiful things, and Shalon Wood did yeoman work getting the initial set-up done, but there’s some weird bug that’s … Continue reading →
