Category: Dead Man’s Party
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First snow in 30 years, and huge strides on the Dead Man’s Party revision
We knew yesterday there would be snow today. I made Matt promise to get me up when it started — and around 4AM, the snow began. (He was editing someone’s novel at the time, and he does that best when the house is quiet and he has it to himself.) So he came and got…
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MONDAY. Ugh. But words in spite of that
The chaos has expanded. My writing time has contracted. In spite of which, I got 1136 NEW words on the Dead Man’s Party revision, today, which came out to half a scene. At the moment, it’s going to have to do, and I’m glad I at least got some words, even if I didn’t get…
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Dead Man’s Party Revision: Quick, short, and NO Friday snippet
Way too deep in stuff right now to dig through and find a snippet. I apologize. Got 2000 words, did NOT finish the chapter revision, so next week I’ll still be working on Chapter 10. But I’m happy with what I got.
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Back to Words: The Dead Man’s Party Revision
The last few days have been wordless because of the ongoing chaos, which still has to get a lot worse before it can start getting better. Today, though, I managed to write Chapter 9 — 1956 words. Again because this is still inside the first twelve chapters where I had not yet figured out the…
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Dead Man’s Party – Cali on the day after
Still all new words in the type-in revision. Today was a brand-new Chapter Eight. Five, Six, and Seven were three different takes on the same event — the point where things go from “wow, that was pretty bad” to “okay, the world has now officially fallen apart.” Chapter Eight brings in the character who WAS…
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DMP Revision — Friday, and I’m running long… by an estimated 30,000 words [FRIDAY SNIPPET]
I knew this would happen. The raw first draft of the novel was 50,718 words in length. I figured during my read through revision that I’d add 10,000 words (because in revision, I always end up adding words — my first drafts are thin). So I thought, Hey, I’ll shoot for 60,000, but I’ll give myself…
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Dead Man’s Party Revision – Thursday – 2040 words to the gritty, mean truth
A book with the title Dead Man’s Party is going to have some dark spots, obviously. It can’t all be PARTY, can it? Well, today I hit the place where my MC, now named Matt Stark, hit the one-year anniversary of the Fall of the Underworld. And the guy who owned the Underworld apparently has been carrying…
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Dead Man’s Party Revision – Wednesday, and the NEW character arrives.
Today, just like Monday and yesterday, was 100% new words. 2115 of them at final count, probably about twice that many that I actually wrote to get the ones I kept. Everything I wrote today required new settings, new names, a completely different starting point — every single word was brand new. So what makes…
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DMP Revision Tuesday – 3038 new words, brand-new second chapter started and finished
Today was another good writing day. 100% new material, but it flew because in this revision, the whole thing is now growing out of everything I discovered in the read-through and write-in revisions of the first draft. Added a couple hundred words to yesterday’s chapter, but everything I wrote yesterday still worked this morning. Everything…
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Dead Man’s Party — The Write-In Revision is done.
Have been working on the read-through/write-in revision of Dead Man’s Party for the past month or so. Finished it today after a four-hour hard push. So the next step, which starts tomorrow, is to build the color-coded index card line-for-scene, which is my PLAN for FIXING IT. That should anywhere between a day or two…