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meg_evonne:
Hello all. I'm keeping to about an hour of writing a day, but i am also including some heavy outline work on a new piece. I can't decide if it will have legs or not. Best writing to all!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Picked apart and totally redid chapter 1, through pass on the rest of it, and I need to redo chapter 8 though hopefully that will not be so gruelling as what I did to chapter 1. It's probably a good thing that I am seeing the need for this now rather than a year after finishing it, but it sure does make getting a first draft slower, I am about two-thirds of where I'd expect to be in wordcount for this span of time with this project.
Also, I think this bunch of people do actually have this culture's standard fusion reactors after all, so the cool liquid-salt deep-burn fission reactors wait until the next volume. Damn it. (Which are in context the equivalent of, say, not having got the internal combustion engine when we did and instead having immensely advanced, sleek, efficient steam engines running everything.)
DeaSis:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 30, 2011, 07:19:19 PM ---Picked apart and totally redid chapter 1, through pass on the rest of it, and I need to redo chapter 8 though hopefully that will not be so gruelling as what I did to chapter 1. It's probably a good thing that I am seeing the need for this now rather than a year after finishing it, but it sure does make getting a first draft slower, I am about two-thirds of where I'd expect to be in wordcount for this span of time with this project.
Also, I think this bunch of people do actually have this culture's standard fusion reactors after all, so the cool liquid-salt deep-burn fission reactors wait until the next volume. Damn it. (Which are in context the equivalent of, say, not having got the internal combustion engine when we did and instead having immensely advanced, sleek, efficient steam engines running everything.)
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*stands and cheers* Good for you! Now I need to put my butt in the chair and spend time on my edits today! Thanks for sharing your progress, I'm shamed/inspired to work on mine after reading it.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I've figured out one thing I did seriously wrong in book #1 now, at the point of a third of the way through writing #2.
I grow ever more amazed at how people manage to write long series where earlier volumes are in print and immutable while later ones are still to be written.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: DeaSis on January 30, 2011, 08:06:44 PM ---*stands and cheers* Good for you! Now I need to put my butt in the chair and spend time on my edits today! Thanks for sharing your progress, I'm shamed/inspired to work on mine after reading it.
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Glad to be of service.
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