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My meteoric rise to novel-ness the first time was pretty encouraging, although the novel I came up with had some distinct shortfalls. It was, actually, encouraging enough that I decided to do it again.
I don't have the vast wordcount goal that I had last time, approaching this one a bit differently. I'm not trying to get it done in a month, I'm just trying to get it written at a goodly clip. In two writing sessions so far, I've got nearly 4700 words done, so it's going at about the same pace as the first one.
The idea this time is to take my friend Web's Rocketmen idea, and build a novel around it. This occurred to me as being a great subject for a novel when I was half-way through the last one, and I decided I might as well get started on it now.
So, I'm off again. If you'd like to keep up with me (spelling errors, weak descriptions, missing plot and all), give this link a reload every couple of days. As always, keep in mind that this is pure first-draft, and it's probably worth less than you're paying for it.
The other story hasn't been forgotten, just in case you were wondering. I've done a complete first-pass edit, and have started a second pass. Then the month ran out, and I'm following the advice I generally hear bandied about, which is to leave it for at least 6 weeks before I start trying to edit it. I'm not terribly impressed with the first story, but after I've got it edited and as good as it's going to get without major work, I'll probably post it over on dangerpants.com for all and sundry to mock.
Posted at 10:27 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater