And then there were four
Jun. 20th, 2004 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynThere.
I just finished writing the chapter I've dreaded writing since I started this project thirteen years ago.
It went better than I expected. It's not good -- it'd still make anyone who knew about warfare cringe (Lut was reading my computer screen while I wrote it, and he was cringing) but at least it's dramatic. Which beats the "inaccurate and undramatic" that I was expecting. And I did deprive the readers of at least one thing that will probably annoy them ("what? what happened? That's all we get?")
But ... it's written.
I have ten more days to write the remaining four chapters, which should be easier by comparison. This chapter was very involved, with a lot of switching back and forth between character viewpoints -- there are thirteen or fourteen little parts to it, whereas I expect the last four chapters to be just one part each. I've got notes for all of them. No sweat.
Almost there.
And then I can take July off and prep for "A Game of October". Whee! Just a little further ....
Oddly, part of me wants to take a break for the rest of today and relax, while another part wants to charge forward and finish writing the whole draft. Sort of "The finish line is just over that hill, I bet I can sprint to it from here!"
Heh.
I just finished writing the chapter I've dreaded writing since I started this project thirteen years ago.
It went better than I expected. It's not good -- it'd still make anyone who knew about warfare cringe (Lut was reading my computer screen while I wrote it, and he was cringing) but at least it's dramatic. Which beats the "inaccurate and undramatic" that I was expecting. And I did deprive the readers of at least one thing that will probably annoy them ("what? what happened? That's all we get?")
But ... it's written.
I have ten more days to write the remaining four chapters, which should be easier by comparison. This chapter was very involved, with a lot of switching back and forth between character viewpoints -- there are thirteen or fourteen little parts to it, whereas I expect the last four chapters to be just one part each. I've got notes for all of them. No sweat.
Almost there.
And then I can take July off and prep for "A Game of October". Whee! Just a little further ....
Oddly, part of me wants to take a break for the rest of today and relax, while another part wants to charge forward and finish writing the whole draft. Sort of "The finish line is just over that hill, I bet I can sprint to it from here!"
Heh.
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Date: 2004-06-20 08:38 am (UTC)Hmm. But it suddenly occurs to me ... do I have a segment you sent me that I haven't read yet? Argh! My email inbox has reached unusually large proportions. I'll just have to go check.
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When does the rest of the world get to see this?
The whole world?
Date: 2004-06-27 03:31 pm (UTC)However, my plan is to revise it into something coherent by the end of 2004. That means: eliminate whatever continuity errors I can find, try to straighten out the characters to make them more consistent, correct the early version of one character's accent, etc., ad nauseum.
Once I've done that, I'll offer it up for feedback to whomever among my friends is interested.
Depending on what sort of feedback I get and how I feel about the book personally, I may or may not do a final revision and submit it to a publisher. I don't intend to self-publish it, either in print or on the web, so if it's not accepted by a publisher, "the world" will most likely never get to see it. :D