Over 132,000 words now and misbehaving near the end. The plot threads that should be whipping around each other and forming a terminal shape are instead waving wildly in the breeze. A good part of that is the current political situation, which is sufficiently dire to grab my attention multiple times a day and suggest Read More…
Category: Progress
More Zeros, More Progress
There’ve been some hitches in the work on the book lately, but some reworking of sections this week seems to have unkinked things again. Tonight I hit 110,000 words, and today’s words feel like good words rather than just “I have to make the wordage if it means writing I can’t think, I don’t know, Read More…
100,000 Celebration!!
Manuscript is now at 100,000 plus words. It’s also after midnight, so I’m two plus hours late getting to bed, but the glittery zeros up ahead just would not let me rest. Wheeee!! Day’s accomplishments: laundry, 3 loaves of homemade bread, beans on to soak for bean soup, and reaching 100,000 words.
Notice of Return
The last of the cleanup (though not all the reorganization) from Thanksgiving has been accomplished, and Author is back on the job. The new book stands at just over 94,000 words now (some days lost to the holiday.) Various components of the feast are already packaged and in the freezer. Other components await deconstruction, division, Read More…
Plot Bomb! Wheee!
I think today’s is the first real, full-on plot bomb of the new book. There I was, typing away about Ky being at mmph, doing urrmph, and then suddenly it came. Fast and hard, so fast that I had only a couple of seconds of knowing what I was going to type and thinking, as Read More…
City Mouse in the Country
Though no one would be likely to call Rafe a mouse, he’s not a large man, and his background is mostly city life on a populous, very civilized (in its estimation anyway) planet. He is familiar with, and extremely capable in handling, life on the run, life on a space station, life in a spaceship, Read More…
Derailment and Back on Track
Sometimes two projects cooperate. The main line runs smoothly on Track One, and the little branch line uses Track Two. Or, if there is no Track Two, it uses Track One when the main line isn’t using it, and otherwise uses the sidings so the main line can pass it again. This is easiest if Read More…
70 Bottles of…er…70,000 words in the file…
70,000 words…write them down, drag them around, 70,000 words in the file…and yes, I’m a bit silly this evening. Not only do I have a book file with 70,000 words in it, but I escaped a computer disaster this week, escaped certain injury and possible death on the highway this afternoon when a truck with Read More…
Progress Report: Zeroes Roll Over
My target for the week was 60,000 words by Friday night. Instead, I reached 60,000 words today, before noon. Sometimes books want to be written, and this is that kind of book. Or possibly slowing down because of other problems has given my brain a chance to think over where it is, and solve problem Read More…
Another Progress Report
Topped 50,000 words today. Interesting things have happened. A bit more information about who did what to whom when, which will lead directly into who’s doing what to whom now, and who wants to do what to whom in the future. Some bad guys have been foiled by some good guys. It’s become obvious that Read More…