Well, It's been one hell of a month. We're probably moving here in the next few weeks. Haven't really worked on the book much as of late... lack of time and inclination.
Just thought I'd drop a quick update.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Where are we again?
Things have slowed down a touch, been throwing ideas around the past week or so, along with going through and making several revisions, most of which were minor though there were some moderately substantial additions.
But, it's shaping up pretty well, on Chapter 3 now, and am presently on page 30.
Fun fact, thus far I have scraped about 15 pages worth of material. And that just whole pages that I highlighted and deleted. This isn't counting the paragraphs lost by way of revision. That would probably add another page or two.
So far though, things seem to be smoothing out, the revision are becoming a bit less frequent and drastic. By and by, it seems to be smoothing out a good deal. Only thing I'm a bit back and forth on is pacing. I want to get into the heart of the story, but I don't want to undersell the introduction ( for lack of a better way to put it.) Other things I'm a little iffy about, but not too badly. I'm trying to get a sort of focus-group organized for the end of the month, hopefully that will help to get a better idea of how other people take to the material I have so far. I'm hoping to get it up to 50 pages by then. Figure the 10% mark would be a good time to step back and say "is it worth continuing with, or should I start over?"
But, it's shaping up pretty well, on Chapter 3 now, and am presently on page 30.
Fun fact, thus far I have scraped about 15 pages worth of material. And that just whole pages that I highlighted and deleted. This isn't counting the paragraphs lost by way of revision. That would probably add another page or two.
So far though, things seem to be smoothing out, the revision are becoming a bit less frequent and drastic. By and by, it seems to be smoothing out a good deal. Only thing I'm a bit back and forth on is pacing. I want to get into the heart of the story, but I don't want to undersell the introduction ( for lack of a better way to put it.) Other things I'm a little iffy about, but not too badly. I'm trying to get a sort of focus-group organized for the end of the month, hopefully that will help to get a better idea of how other people take to the material I have so far. I'm hoping to get it up to 50 pages by then. Figure the 10% mark would be a good time to step back and say "is it worth continuing with, or should I start over?"
Thursday, September 1, 2011
And then, there was blood.
I worked on Chapter 2 today, and I have it mostly done. Just a few more pages probably and I'll be good to go. Sent it out to my test readers for their impressions. Hopefully they'll like it. This is the first in which the main "bad guys" come into the picture, and I really tried to do them justice. Hopefully the test readers will feel the same.
Suppose I should explain the test readers a bit. I'm trying a (I'm assuming anyways) a bit of an odd approach, in that from time to time I'm sending out the most recent revision of that I have at that point to get some impressions on how it's shaping up. I have a wide variety of people coming from all sorts of demographics and interests so hopefully I can get a good snapshot.
But, that's about it for now. Almost time for work... oh joy!
Suppose I should explain the test readers a bit. I'm trying a (I'm assuming anyways) a bit of an odd approach, in that from time to time I'm sending out the most recent revision of that I have at that point to get some impressions on how it's shaping up. I have a wide variety of people coming from all sorts of demographics and interests so hopefully I can get a good snapshot.
But, that's about it for now. Almost time for work... oh joy!
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