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mad season

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

The mad season has taken my workplace, those twilight months where GDC and E3 occur and days stretch into nights and I wind up going home around midnight and climbing into bed an hour later.

I don’t want to hold off on PttD, but I suspect I may have to because the short story set in TheComicSeriesThatRefusesToBeNamed and Firebird are still in progress. (And four characters instantly scream, “NO! YOU PROMISED!” — back! back to the cerebellum, you bastards!)

Also, last year I wrote Firebird in fits and spurts, and I know it affected the time to finish for the work. Part of that, though, was feeling my way through the world. It’s the last time I’ll ever write a book without knowing the world first.

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…or not

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

I appear to have tuckered myself out. But I did write a few synopsis paragraphs, and I did talk to the collaborator about stuff and things.

This week I have to do two pitch letters for two different projects. I think I’ll go to bed early tonight.

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it’s that time….

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

I’m being dragged off by a synopsis sometime tonight.

D’ya suppose sandpaper can buff out the furrows my nails’ll leave in the floorboards?

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Sensitive

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Some people have a sensitivity to light, or harsh chemicals. I have a sensitivity to words.

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Thumbnails

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Two more pages of thumbnails with dialog. Finding my stride in this. It’d be nice if I could thumbnail and watch the Daily Show but I suspect that won’t be the case.

I’m still stressing over the first three chapters of, well, everything. I think I’m going to be crazy and start the next book in the middle.

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pitch perfect

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I’m writing the brief synopsis of Poison as if it were a pitch. What a brilliant idea! Somebody kill me.

I wrote a separate pitch for the as-yet-to-be-named comics project, and might I add that while I have no problem coming up with characters and story, NAMING and ENCAPSULATING all that in a concise, catchy way? Not my thing. Not. My. Thing.

I’ve decided to establish themes for all future projects. Themes for Poison will be words and power. Themes for the unnamed project will be “normal” and — shit, I dunno, sexy guys in cowboy gear. I kind of like that theme. Oh, wait, I remember now — personification of myth. That’s a theme. Right?

Anyway, all this is John Scalzi and Dee’s fault. John Scalzi because the bastard does fantastic 10-words-or-less summaries of his books (and I strongly suspect he’s writing the cover flaps, though I could be wrong — whoever’s doing it, they’ve managed to hook me for Old Man’s War and I don’t even LIKE sci-fi). And Dee because she sent me a page on how to write pitches.

Ugh. Guh. Ngh. I’m off.

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ponderification

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

One suggestion from an astue first reader has caused me to bang my head into the keyboard (figuratively) for the past 24 hours. It’s one of those changes that is a damn good one but would require so much reworking it makes my head spin. In fact, I’m not sure I can do it — because the resulting book would be a different book

So the question becomes: Would it then be a better book? It would definitely open up new avenues and it would condense some things, but the amount of work it would take would effectively make it a very different novel.

Argh.

This is a point of consistency between the two books that I probably need to be aware of and work on: I tend to write too many characters. Inevitably, there’re one or two who could be combined without much loss. Except in the fact that I’d have to sit and pick apart whole segments of the book to sew it back together. BLARGH.

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dialog

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Done blocking dialog and setting up the first five pages. On to the next five. The next story in the arc is already poking at my head. Grumble.

This weekend whould be remarkably unproductive, but them’s the breaks.

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more dialog

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

I’m such a damn slacker. One page of dialog. Pshaw.

This weekend is going to be busy, I can feel it. Five more thumbnails and a synopsis, though! That’s what I’m after!

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projects and dialog

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

On the drive home last night, the entire plot for the historical fantasy unfolded in my brain like a tea leaf doused with hot water. It was at once wonderful and rather frightening, and is causing me to question what my next project will be.

On one hand, Poison would be quick to write because I know the world and the characters. This project is at least a year’s commitment. I’d have to research. I’d have to be clever. It’s a challenge.

I don’t know what to do. I guess I have some thinking ahead of me.

Two more pages of dialog and blocking. Next time, I’m doing this when I thumbnail.

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