I did stuff. Mostly just poking at my characters. My brain doesn’t want to function tonight (not enough sleep) so…yeah. I am so looking forward to this book. These characters are amazing. At some point, though, I’m going to have to start working on plot. But hey. If I have vibrant characters who want different […]
I know it’s necessary. I can’t jump from one thing to the next with no break. Even if I didn’t have to save Hiro II for NaNo. (NaNoNaNoNaNoNaNoNaNo…) I’ve heard it all before, and I even believe it. You have to recharge; you have to let the muses rest. Doesn’t mean I have to like
It’s done! Hiro’s book is DONE!! I took the idea (and the name, because deathmarch sounds pretty damn serious) from Elizabeth Bear, who tends to do it when she gets close to the end of her work in progress. It’s just…knowing you’re close, and not stopping till you’re done. It took me 4,958 words today,
So, of course, I am writing madly to finish last year’s. I’m almost there! For the first time, however, I lost the NaNoPubYe Fall Warm-Up. Hiro was just too close to the end–I couldn’t rush it. Sigh. I can’t be too unhappy about it, though–I love what I’m writing. Friendship and love, magic and glory
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Sometimes you just have to trash it all and write through someone else’s eyes. Sometimes you have a lovely bit of still-life, some couple thousand very pretty words, but your story hasn’t started yet. Or you’ve got a great scene, full of conflict and emotion, that doesn’t belong in the story you’re writing. I like
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I’m so near the end I don’t want to do anything else. Hiro’s book, nearly done, yay!! And getting more ideas for the second and third… Elizabeth Bear calls it a deathmarch when she gets so close to the end that she just–pushes on and finishes it. Rather appropriate, I think. Onward!
So this morning I got up early, as I’ve been trying to form that habit, and I wrote my morning pages that I hadn’t done in perhaps a month. (well, I tried yesterday but only got half a page done before I had to leave.) Anyway. In my ramblings this morning, I plotted out the