Nothing is yet cast in stone… but in about a week the full force of this particular Chaos Storm is going to hit. The Current ChaosTM is pretty close to becoming the Big Right On Top Of Me Chaos — a state that could last from a best case of one month to a worst… Continue reading Streamlining During Chaos: Fiction? YES.
Category: Dead Man’s Party
The DMP Revision, and the WRONG End of the String – Family and Brain Surgery
The string in the title is CHAOS, and in the little image on my blog, we are currently not in the neat and spiffy central spiral, but in the dark tangle out at the end. I’ll start with the happier stuff. Today was Revision Monday, and I got just over half of the remainder of… Continue reading The DMP Revision, and the WRONG End of the String – Family and Brain Surgery
DMP Revision Monday, and Not Too Early for the Halloween Listener Episode
I did four hours of work on Dead Man’s Party yesterday. I got one page of manuscript done. HOWEVER, I finally got the chance to do the thing I used to do first — world building. I got six closely written pages of worldbuilding done, in which I figured out (this is AFTER having written the… Continue reading DMP Revision Monday, and Not Too Early for the Halloween Listener Episode
Dead Man’s Party revision — Three more chapters
I got three more chapters and change finished on the read-and-annotate part of the revision before I had to move on to other things. Had a late start, but managed solid work and some good re-thinknig of early middle of the book before the fine edge of chaos wedged its way into my day. So… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party revision — Three more chapters
Marketing Tuesday: Not so much, because the HTWAN BONUS is still not done…
Marketing Tuesday got pre-empted by my need to finish the HTWAN Student-Voted Bonus, Interweaving Multiple Story Threads in Big, Complex Novels. Which still isn’t done. Today’s image is a screenshot of one of the pages showing the technique for building and then using the threads in a complex novel. At the speed this is going,… Continue reading Marketing Tuesday: Not so much, because the HTWAN BONUS is still not done…
The Ohio Series: 2667 words, and SOFW Goals
Summer of Fiction Writing stuff first. I didn’t realize until this morning when I went it to check them that I’d forgotten to write down all steps of my clear goals. So the first thing I did this morning was that. They’re on the forum, but I’m reposting them here as well. My Summer of… Continue reading The Ohio Series: 2667 words, and SOFW Goals
Dead Man’s Party: Wrote the SERIES ending…
DEAD MAN’S PARTY Last week I wrote a stand-alone ending for Dead Man’s Party. This week, because I had one week and one chapter left, I wrote a series ending, and showed how I built out pieces of story that do not exist in the first draft, but that, if I decide I want Dead Man’s… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party: Wrote the SERIES ending…
Dead Man’s Party: Finished the novel first draft
I finished another novel today — this one pretty much on schedule. I’d planned it for 50,000 words, and came in at 50,085. Wrote 1847 words in a smidge over a hour to get there. I got a GOOD ending for the novel. Most of the time, great endings are something I build in revision,… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party: Finished the novel first draft
Dead Man’s Party: 1178 words today, some nice tension, and just three chapters left
I got my words this morning in three ten-minute runs — and I love what I got. I ran a smidge over my goal, but that’s okay. This scene was a short, tight run through the third of four scenes that are occurring simultaneously in the novel as my characters go tearing toward the ending.… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party: 1178 words today, some nice tension, and just three chapters left
Dead Man’s Party: I lost a character I loved today
I got my words today — 1112 of them, which was more than the 1075 I had to get. And they absolutely flew. And mostly I loved what I got, and the part that I hated still was necessary and important to the story. It was good storytelling — and good storytelling beats being nice… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party: I lost a character I loved today
