50k, sort-of

Silliness:



I have unleashed Delia Sherman's 800 gorillas on my manuscript, largely because I mostly ran out of first draft things to do. There will be a lot of clean-up (much of which is documented in "need to do this/need to flesh out that" sorts of bullet points in a couple more scrivener tabs that I included in my final word count) and some re-thinking of the timeline, since I changed my mind half-way through and decided that it would really be better to have a two year gap between the last book and the main events of this one, so some parts are done either way.

There are also the requisite passages such as: Lionel could think of nothing to say, and then he was again struck dumb as another face swam into focus among the crowd of faces, a woman’s face, dark as [[roasted venison is not a flattering comparison]],* (ok, that's the "best" of them, I admit...) closely followed by the bit where I accidentally wrote the same event from two different viewpoints and slightly different things happen in each. And there's an entire sub-plot that turned up at the last minute, and one that ought to have turned up somewhere but didn't (or I have some completely extraneous token gay characters, which is unhelpful on several levels), and some other things to sort out, but I do know what they are now, for when I come back to things.

I do feel a bit bad at having left two characters in the lurch now-- Mara at the end of the last book, four or five months pregnant with a tree to save, and now Theo is possessed by (of?) an ancient and possibly vengeful sorcerer, but I'm sure they'll get themselves sorted out somehow.

And right now my head hurts, and I hate a number of things (more on that later) and I am going to bed. Tomorrow, I shall crack the shrink wrap on Cryoburn, and see if I feel like poking at my own manuscript a little more after I've finished it. Everyone else has been skipping my write-in; I think now it's my turn to do so.


*I've been having this trouble with the skin tone descriptors, since the modern basics of "ebony" and "coffee" don't apply, the former being too dark for everyone we've met yet, and the latter beverage doesn't exist, at least on this continent. Caroline used walnut dye as a comparison once, but Lionel's a prince & has a more expensive context... what's a nice dark brown and rich, and appropriate to describe the skin of your beloved, anyway?

50k, sort-of

Silliness:



I have unleashed Delia Sherman's 800 gorillas on my manuscript, largely because I mostly ran out of first draft things to do. There will be a lot of clean-up (much of which is documented in "need to do this/need to flesh out that" sorts of bullet points in a couple more scrivener tabs that I included in my final word count) and some re-thinking of the timeline, since I changed my mind half-way through and decided that it would really be better to have a two year gap between the last book and the main events of this one, so some parts are done either way.

There are also the requisite passages such as: Lionel could think of nothing to say, and then he was again struck dumb as another face swam into focus among the crowd of faces, a woman’s face, dark as [[roasted venison is not a flattering comparison]],* (ok, that's the "best" of them, I admit...) closely followed by the bit where I accidentally wrote the same event from two different viewpoints and slightly different things happen in each. And there's an entire sub-plot that turned up at the last minute, and one that ought to have turned up somewhere but didn't (or I have some completely extraneous token gay characters, which is unhelpful on several levels), and some other things to sort out, but I do know what they are now, for when I come back to things.

I do feel a bit bad at having left two characters in the lurch now-- Mara at the end of the last book, four or five months pregnant with a tree to save, and now Theo is possessed by (of?) an ancient and possibly vengeful sorcerer, but I'm sure they'll get themselves sorted out somehow.

And right now my head hurts, and I hate a number of things (more on that later) and I am going to bed. Tomorrow, I shall crack the shrink wrap on Cryoburn, and see if I feel like poking at my own manuscript a little more after I've finished it. Everyone else has been skipping my write-in; I think now it's my turn to do so.


*I've been having this trouble with the skin tone descriptors, since the modern basics of "ebony" and "coffee" don't apply, the former being too dark for everyone we've met yet, and the latter beverage doesn't exist, at least on this continent. Caroline used walnut dye as a comparison once, but Lionel's a prince & has a more expensive context... what's a nice dark brown and rich, and appropriate to describe the skin of your beloved, anyway?

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