Right, time to report in for all the Orbiteers and anyone else who is keeping track. Love you for keeping me motivated!
Kindred Spirit is making steady progress at last. Chapter One has been almost entirely rewritten, to up the adrenaline and intrigue. Act 2 has been tightened and expanded where needed. And I’ve found more ways to confuse and torture my heroine (yes!)
Word count is now 74,500 approx, with another 5,000 still to be written, possibly more. I’m battling a flaky internet connection which is highly irritating for those moments where I need to do quick research. For instance, when Triss is given her lost father’s ring – what stone would have the most appropriate significance? (Currently I’m deciding between carnelian – action; and bloodstone – courage)
I’m going public now to declare I will have this draft completed by 9th March, the day before my parents come to visit for 2 weeks. Wow, it’s unnerving to have an actual deadline.
Posted by Graham Storrs on February 15, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Ooooo. (sucks teeth) The 9th March isn’t far off you know.
Just kidding.
But I’ll be watching the blog that day…
Posted by janettedalgliesh on February 24, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Midway progress report. Wow, talk about ambitious. Yikes. But I finally have one single consolidated manuscript again, having taken it apart and reassembled it with new parts, some wildly adapted old parts and some scraps stolen from other stories. I have a couple of nuts and bolts left over but on the whole I think it’s going to run.
Now need half a dozen new little linking scenes and a major rewrite of one key scene. Not to mention filling in those placeholder bits that say [insert brand name here] or the like.
Will I make the 9 March deadline? Stay tooned, sports fans…