Thing One: Thanks to my mom, who is a hero of the revolution, I got 300 of 400 pages revised yesterday. There’s as much work to do in the last hundred as there was in the first three hundred, but at least I’ve got all the groundwork laid. At the moment I’m even up by 2K, because I haven’t started any major deletions yet. That, however, is not going to last. Thing Two: I’m tired. I have eleven hundred projects I’d like to work on, some of which are important,…
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Know how I posted a few weeks ago saying I felt something was wrong with the book but I couldn’t see it? Well, 30K further on I can now tell you with assurance that the place where I thought I’d screwed up, I screwed up. I just wasn’t far enough past it to see how to fix it. Now I am, and instead of having 10K to go and anticipating finishing this week, I have 90 freaking thousand words to revise to some degree or another, and will feel lucky…
small triumphs
I started the day 800 words behind. I caught up, completed quota, and ended the day 2300 words to the good, for a startling-to-me total of 4100 words, and just over 90K on RAVEN CALLS. I haven’t yet hit the “I have five chapters left” stage, which is normally lurking ’round about now–the conviction that I have five chapters left, and that I will continue to think I have five chapters left, until I suddenly reach the end of the book. In the meantime, I’m doing a reading from and…
dopplegangers
They (“They”) say everybody’s got a doppleganger somewhere in the world. Me, at last count, I had six. I’m reminded of this because Agrimony saw me a few nights ago at a Jeff Duhham show in New England, when she knew perfectly well I was at home sleeping in my bed in Ireland. The first time someone said she knew somebody who looked just like me I was nine years old. I’d just moved into town and was going to a new school and a girl said to me, “You’re…
crowdfunding vs kindle
So during the course of my crowdfunded events people have asked me why I don’t just write something straight for the e-reader market. My biggest reason is “because crowdfunding pays me now, and an e-reader market story might not pay me at all.” It probably would, mind you, but I don’t know how well. Right now with the crowdfunding stuff I’m getting what I’d consider market value for my short stories and novellas–somewhere around $500 for short stories and around $3K for novellas–and that’s an awful damned lot of $.99…