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I've been getting positive responses to this whole crazy "novel in a month" thing. I'm not exactly surprised, but it's encouraging, and far better than the other sort of response: "Why would you waste your time on something like that? Are you a crazyperson?"
The editing has gone well so far, although I'm only up to chapter 15 or so (out of 70-some). I'm just doing a first pass right now, embellishing a lot of passages which look pretty in my mind, but come across as fairly bland (or "require imagination on the part of the reader") in the text. I've got some ideas for other story bits to insert, to flesh out the world a bit more, but I think those are going to wait until the first editing pass is done.
This might take a while.
Probably the biggest problem I'm running into with the novel is the mental block which says, "every published novel I've ever read has been in someone else's voice; this novel is in my voice, therefore it's not publishable." Of course, that's completely ridiculous when confronted as a logical argument, but it's pretty compelling as an emotional one.
I find myself faced with a fair amount of slack time at the holidays this year, and I'm thinking about writing another novel. Mostly it's a matter of technology -- the laptop on which I can do editing has a whopping half-hour battery life or something. On the other hand, the ancient "laptop" on which I do composition lasts something like 15-20 hours on a charge. That argument alone is fairly compelling.
I was thinking about writing a story around the Rocketmen mythos my friend Web came up with. It seems like a ripe hunting ground for ideas and storylines. I'll have to see whether that turns into anything or not. It would certainly be cool to have two two-week novels under my belt.
Posted at 11:24 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater