In which the penultimate draft is done

[rolanni]

Last night I finished the penultimate draft of Carousel Seas, the last book in the Archers Beach trilogy.  Now the manuscript (and the author) get a couple days to breathe before I dive in among the commas for a last pass.

Also?  I get to clean off my desk.  The picture below is your reminder that creativity is messy.

The desk at the end of the draft

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Progress on Carousel Seas

100,358/100,000 words OR 100.36% complete

Here ends the penultimate draft

Comments

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

Given that perception is often far removed from reality, it seems as though this book was not a shy about getting written as, say, Ghost Ship. It seems to me that for that leg of Theo's story the backbrain did not feed the forebrain as quickly as with this one. Is that even close to accurate?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You're absolutely correct; Ghost Ship was very shy and difficult. Part of that is because Ghost Ship has more moving parts than all three of the Carousel books stacked end-to-end.

In general, the Liaden books tend to be complicated to write, because of the multiple storylines and characters. But even then, some Liaden books more are more difficult than others -- In recent memory, Mouse and Dragon practically wrote itself and Necessity's Child was pleasantly easy to write. Ghost Ship and Trade Secret were among the most difficult.