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August 23, 2005
Day 11-12: First Setback--Dang!
After a blissful run over the past two weeks in which the UMBRA manuscript cracked 20,000 words, the past two days have been difficult. This was expected, in that at this point the story leaves the ECLIPSE narrative behind (the story of my protagonist has been weaving in and around the final act of ECLIPSE up to this point, being very careful not to affect that book's storyline--a tricky problem not dissimilar from problems one might encounter time travelling into the past, really), and begins to deal with the numerous colourful and lively problems lined up for what happens to everyone after the end of ECLIPSE. It's awkward talking about that book in such vague terms, considering it hasn't been released just yet, so I have to watch possible spoiler issues.
Anyway, as of right now I've only got 22,000 words. I didn't get a lot done yesterday (headache following physiotherapy activity in the morning) but what I had was okay; today almost all the material I cranked out this afternoon had that "off-key" feeling I associate with stuff that isn't working. This evening I chopped a lot of that out and did a bunch of rewriting, and that's how I finished with the 22,000 all up. One of the problems with the material today was that it felt like things were taking too long to happen, and things were just kind of cumbersome. What you want is for stuff to keep moving along at a nice clip, and if I'm noticing that slogging, trudging feeling, I'm guessing a reader will, too.
All the same, I'm still on track to have the whole thing done by Christmas, all things being equal. That would be fab.
Posted by adrian at August 23, 2005 08:44 PM
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That would be an excellent Christmas present to give yourself, old bean.
And great news about Pixel! Benign lumps and speedy recovery to boot must be making you and Michelle giddy with relief.
Posted by: Charlie at August 25, 2005 02:08 AM
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