Greetings, programs!
It’s been a while since I updated my progress and/or linked some other stuff around the Writersphere, so…I’m now going to update my progress and link some stuff around the Writersphere. Wow-za!
:: I think I have a title for Lighthouse Boy. I’m not sure yet; I like to live with titles a bit before I decide if they’re right for the books. Kind of like breaking in new shoes, I guess.
As for actually writing the book, I’m closing in on the end. I think I’m two or three chapters away — more likely three, but you never know with these things. I’ve been promising a long book, and this one is certainly that. The manuscript currently stands at just under 200,000 words, and this is only Book One! (Never fear; this is going to be a duology, not an extended series of doorstops. Just two doorstops.)
:: Editing Forgotten Stars III has been a real task. A lot of heavy lifting, with some wholesale rewriting of entire chapters. Part of the problem was that I had to literally insert an entire subplot from the get-go (which has to be there, because it solves a lot of the book’s original problems), and there are other things I did in the first draft that were problematic and had to be either reworked or jettisoned entirely. I’m well behind where I wanted to be on this book by now, but it simply couldn’t be helped.
:: I don’t know what was in my coffee this week, but I found myself entertaining a lot of new story ideas. Weird.
But enough about me! What are other folks up to?
:: Dawn Kurtagich went to Spain.
:: Briana Mae Morgan updated her editing services. Check her out!
:: Amanda Fairchild posted a short story. I wonder what’s in that freezer….
:: Friend and beta-reader Jason Bennion eulogizes Prince. Jason is a terrific writer.
:: How Jen Fulmer got her agent.
That’s about it for now. Cheerio, chaps, and we’ll see you around the Galaxy!
Hi Kelly – thank you for the link to my story, and good luck with your doorstop! I’m just starting mine – well, it’s more likely to be a “slim volume”, knowing my tendency to procrastinate…