Category: Talyn

  • 4755 words on the proposal, and feeling an ending building

    Not tonight, however, as I’ve developed a pinpoint right-eye headache, and what I want to do most of all is sleep. I’ll do a couple hundred more words, then wrap for the night.

  • First writing session of 2002

    Today I’ll work on the book first — that writing tends to go faster and more smoothly. Today I’ll write the Seolar scene I’d planned for Sunday but didn’t get. 2500 words — should be able to get that without too much difficulty. As for the proposal, I’d like to finish a thousand good words.…

  • Unscheduled crash/ scheduled day off

    Yesterday, after seven straight hours on the proposal and a few hundred words of actual progress, I threw up my hands in despair for the entire day’s work, went downstairs, and watched three episodes of the second season of The Sopranos with Matt. About 300 words on the proposal, nothing on the book. Today I…

  • Okay, so they don’t live on the islands

    I am still slogging on the proposal right now, and though I made my life, and future strategy & tactics planning sessions vastly simpler by deciding that for this first book at least the conflict will not take place across a splash of a million tiny islands but rather on one smallish continent (or largish…

  • Have a late start today, and the same amount of work

    2500 words on the book 1000 or better on the proposal Code Red in hand, I’m about to get started. Today in the book, Seolar discovers the depths of trouble his world has just fallen into — and maybe Lauren returns from the afterlife. Maybe. Have to see how it all falls out. In the…

  • The most important principle in creating conflict in fiction is this:

    Every strength can be turned into a weakness, and every weakness can be turned into a strength, and it is not by our strengths that we succeed or fail, but by the way we manage our weaknesses. The monkey is well on his way to winning against dragons, demons and wizards — but I’m done…

  • I have worked myself into a corner

    I have worked myself into a corner I’ve set up this stunning, world-spanning, world-changing disaster, and now I’m looking at the people I have on hand to fight it, and I don’t know what they’re going to do. It’s a game of “Monkey Wins,” –humans outnumbered, outgunned, and outsmarted who have to come back and…

  • 315 words on the proposal, and … eek!

    I am getting a feel for how deep into trouble the poor humans on Korre are. Oh, damn. Outnumbered, outgunned, attacked from within and without, and at this point unable to even realize that what is a danger to some of them is a danger to all of them, they’re looking a whole lot like…

  • S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Write!

    There is no place in the world for the Bay City Rollers, or bad puns on bad songs … but … I couldn’t resist. Plan for the day: 1000 words or better on the proposal 2500 words or better on the book Done by 8 p.m. Got the first two yesterday, missed the third because…

  • 1087 words on Talyn

    I finished the sentence and the thought, but now it’s time to move on. I’d still like to be done by 8 p.m.. Could be done. Stranger things have happened. This is, after all, in large part a love scene, a bit of tragedy, a bit of terror … with luck it will fall nicely…