Category: Summer of Fiction Writing
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I’m annoyed with myself — Ohio 2 revision read-through, markup… and an unanticipated issue
So I’m all the way through page 422 on the read-through of Book 2. There are 431 printed pages in the first-draft manuscript, and you’d think, wouldn’t you, that being this close to the end of the book, I’d just finish the read-through and mark-up today? Usually, I would. But I’ve been hitting some walls…
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Read-through write-in revision of Ohio 2 now done through page 233 of 431
Read-through/write-in notes today flew, with Book 2 being a remarkably clean first draft (not even a lot of typos)… …Right up to the point where it wasn’t. In the last three novels, I changed some of the worldbuilding that I did in Two to something much better. And when I ran into the spot where…
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Cuss, cuss, swear, swear, @#%^&*Z!!!!
Seriously… What a week. Earlier, the kitchen sink started spouting water, so we were doing dishes in the bathroom sink. Then the water heater died. Matt found a plumber, who will be coming out today, but since Monday, I’ve been refreshing my unused-but-never-forgotten camping skills, and have been doing a daily bath using one cup…
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Coming of the Fen — The Ohio Invasion
There’s a certain amount of wackiness in what I have going on right now, in spite of the fact that the core of the problem my characters are facing is nothing less than save-the-world with a pretty big dollop of save-a-bunch-of-worlds. I’m having a helluva lot of fun playing with the situation. But… I can’t…
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I feel so sorry for my main character — but happy at the same time
I knew last week that I’d left myself in a good place for this morning — a nice revelation, something terrible suggested in the past. And as I read last week’s words before starting into today’s, everything clicked. I’ve been writing since just before 7 AM, and the words flew. I got 1487 (out of…
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Figured out a spiffy twist… and got carried away: 1797 words, 50,345 total
Today was a “how are they doing it?” day with the novel, as something that has been going on since before Book One even started is revealed. And for folks who, like me, watched a LOT of Scooby-Doo as kids, I’ll note that no rubber suits were involved. This was bloody, and gory, and truly…
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My MC is having some PTSD and a bit of existential horror today
Discovering what you’re capable of under extreme duress will do that to you… and she had the EXTREME duress of being mostly dead for about half an hour. During which she did some things she can’t explain… And the ICU discovered some things about her that modern medicine, the doc, and the nurses can’t explain.…
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Another fine day in Word-Town — My secondary hero’s secret comes out
While my main character is female, my secondary lead is male — and today, for the first time, a big chunk of truth he happened to know about her past came out, along with some grim bits and pieces from his past. The words flew, and I discovered things I simply had not known until…
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“Interesting choice…” My MC didn’t just surprise her enemy. She surprised me.
Today’s words went well. I have my hero in a nicely awful situation, and she’s going to see a whole lot worse for the rest of this week’s writing. Have a total on Book 4 of 33,137 words, and 1362 for today. Good writing day, lots of fun with my character and the trouble I’ve…
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Ohio 4 Slow start, but some nice conflict — 852 words
This morning didn’t go as I’d planned (scheduling conflicts and a calendar screw-up that broke a couple of planned things), and I was way late getting started on the words. But the local high-school football stadium found its way into the story, and tomorrow, I’ll be writing some scary, magic-y things happening there. Things that…