Category: The Silver Door
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Ending Must Answer Beginnings
It’s easy to forget, in the middle of a significant rewrite, that the first question asked at the beginning of the book has changed, and that the ending must be changed to match. The fact that I forgot it is what woke me up this morning. I realized that I’d set up a completely new…
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Finished SILVER DOOR Write-In
Tomorrow I’ll start on the type-in, but for today, I’m done, done, done! The write-in revision went well. The beta tester comments helped—folks found a lot of the same issues my editor found, as well as a few things that didn’t bother her, but bothered me. I managed to cover both bits of ground. No…
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Today Has Been Chaos
You have until tomorrow 10 AM to throw your name in as a beta reader, just because I’m not going to have time to do the hat thing today.
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SILVER DOOR Is DONE!
Done, mailed to my agent and my editor, and I own my weekend. Which I will spend an inordinate amount of time sleeping through, no doubt. DONE. And I love it. It was, I think, worth all the pain. So. You have the whole weekend to tell me why you should be one of the…
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Endless, Endless Revision
Only have to get through 10,000 words today. But today has been the Slaughter of the Trite, and though I started at 7 AM, I have ripped out so many words and deleted so much stuff that even with squeezing in and writing a ton of new pages, I’m at -875 words for the day,…
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Today’s Trifecta
10,000 words of combined revision and new material just break even on the deadline Migraine that is making me see spots Hubby sick with fever of 101+ Any bets on the order these three are going to finish in?
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Brutal
Of the 7000 words I did today, more than 4000 of them were new. I’m done now, though I lost all of my hard-earned buffer in one day. Agh. Sitting here glancing over tomorrow’s pages, and they look frighteningly like today’s. To bed in an hour, I think, and up between five-thirty and six tomorrow.…
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And BLAM! The Mess Arrives
I’m deep in it now. Cutting from later chapters and pasting into this one, rewriting, editing, writing in new stuff that reads better than the stuff I scrawled over the stuff I’d written, and creating new material eked from the barest of bare-bones notes. I told Jean yesterday that writing a book always feels to…
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Did Extra on SILVER DOOR Today
Got pretty close to 14,000 words done today. Why go over my 10,000-word goal? Because I had a couple of fairly clean chapters, and I know I’m not far from hitting the massacre, where I started ripping holes in the manuscript and writing cryptic little notes to myself like, “Write new scene, include monster, silver…
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Nearly 11 PM
Just finished day one of the type-in. I can hope the next days go faster than this one, but I don’t think I can hope it and be realistic at the same time. I need to have 10,000 completed words done each day, and I got that today, but it was a long, long haul.…