Any plan where you lose your hat...

[rolanni]

Dull weekend from the outside. Full of angst from the inside. I hope to ghod that I'm not making a Hideous Hash out of this book. Once you get down inside the sentences and start rearranging the pronouns and adjectives, you lose all notion of where the story is, if it makes sense on a macro level, if it's even written in English.

At least I do. Authors are weak-witted, fragile creatures, prone to questioning themselves and their craft at the least convenient hour of the day.

Anyhow, I have successfully deconstructed former chapters 17 and 18, using bits and pieces thereof to produce the glorious! new! and exciting! chapter 21. Now, I need to write chapter 22, then turn my attention to chapter 19, soon to be recast as chapter 23.

Thrilling, no?

In and amongst it all, I changed 'round the furniture here at Eagles Over the Kennebec. I like the red hat quite a bit, though the eyeglasses are a trifle alarming. In the process of adding yet more yummy links to the sidebar, I find that I have used up my allotment. Who knew? I suppose I'll have to houseclean, eventually, sigh. It's always so hard to know what to get rid of.

My other good deed on the weekend was to update the Liaden Universe® FAQ, which was embarrassingly out-of-date, and shortly will be again.

Appropos of the sidebar, I note that you may now pre-order the Ace editions of Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem, as well as Longeye, of course.

Tomorrow is Monday, which hardly seems fair. If I push, maybe I can finish writing that new chapter tonight.

Beginning word count, Fledgling first draft:

97,483 / 100,000 (97.5%)

Fledgling second draft:

99,383 / 100,000 (99.4%)

Comments

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Amen on the experience of the revising and being just such a writer. I'm about to get going hard on revisions and know this WILL be what I experience.

[tapetum.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how reassuring that is to hear. I'm neck-deep in my first major novel revision, and I'm terrified of how lost I feel in the middle of my own story.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

I remember 'polishing' up a paper in college and at the end discovering that I had for some strange reason changed almost all of the sentences into Latin grammar order! I read really wierdly.

[jimsmyth.livejournal.com]

I've gotta wonder if quantum physicists feel like this.

"Okay, I've got that Einstein-Bose Condensate hammered out, time to relax and... AH! Manyworlds! I've RUINED it!"