Category Archives: Darkniciad

About a quarter through Secret

I’m about a quarter of the way through the reworking of Secret, but better than half of that has been reworking already written scenes.  I have several entirely new scenes that I need to get in there to straighten this one out.

Went through and made some decisions on changes to Lowborn, but haven’t actually implemented any of them, yet.  As I said, the changes in that one are pretty minor and won’t take long.

Finished up the ending of Amber, so I just need to go back and write that wild party scene that’s vexxing me.  Also wrote a little on SOTM.  Though I’m giving some priority to Secret right now, so that it will be ready for the contest ( hoping for Day 1 ) other things continue in the meantime.

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Working on edits

I got the impression reads back for both Lowborn 05 and Secret yesterday, so I’m working on ironing out those stories.  Lowborn will mostly be tweaking, but there is some major restructuring and rewriting to do on Secret.  That one’s going to take a little while.

Odds are that I’ll pause here and there and drop scenes into Ch. 17 of SOTM.  The story is still flowing in my head, and I’m not going to give it time to stop bubbling if I can help it.

Also put a touch or two onto Amber.  Skipped ahead past the scene I’m struggling to visualize and wrote the biggest part of the ending.  Just a little bit more of it, and I’ll be ready to go back and try that difficult scene again.

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2k into 17

Yes, the title of the post is accurate.  I’m already a little over 2000 words into Ch. 17 of SOTM.  One-fifth of the way to the wordcount bar where I like to keep the chapters.  I did say it was flowing, didn’t I? 😀

I’m sure it will be more than that before the night is over.  I’m just on one of those little breaks I have to take frequently when I write nowadays.  I’m going much longer between them at the moment, though.

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Chapter 16 done.

Just finished Chapter 16 of Sisters of the Mists a minute ago.  The story is still vivid in my mind, so as soon as I finish with this blog entry, I’m going to move straight into opening up a new document and get Ch. 17 rolling.

If I can maintain this sort of energy level for a few more days, I might just start putting together a set of goals as I did when I was preparing to launch the story the first time.  I’m thinking about a goal of around 5-10 chapters ahead of the last release before I start posting again, but we’ll see when I get there.

The important thing is that the story is moving at a reasonable pace again, something that hasn’t happened in a long, long time.

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In the zone

SOTM 16 is officially in the zone of where I try to keep all the chapters: 9-11k words.  Just started the final full scene of the chapter, with only the short chapter closer after that.

The young one just went down for a rare nap, so I’ll probably write a bit of that scene before I try to doze a little myself.  I’d be surprised if I don’t finish it this weekend, even though I’m expecting back the first reads on both Lowborn and Secret of the Wood this weekend as well.

I’ll probably just read the critiques, let them simmer in my head for a while, and continue on with the next chapter of SOTM.  As I said before, I don’t want to hop off that horse while she’s still running strong.

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