Monthly Archives: June 2009
Chapter 20, finally!
| June 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Lament of the Dove |
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Apparently I need to wander off to Canada more often, if it means I can actually finish up a chapter. Did a little bit of poking at Chapter 20 of Lament on Thursday night, more yesterday morning in Vancouver, and a bit more tonight–and realized that yeah, I was ready to go on ahead to the end of the file.
So this means the fourth draft of Chapter 20 is finally done. The biggest change to this turned out to be pulling a bit of interaction between Kirinil and Faanshi out of a previous version of Chapter 17, since I wanted that here for Kirinil generally magically checking Faanshi out.
And this means that at last, I can move on to Chapter 21. And hopefully pick up some serious speed with the editing. Chapter 21 is a Kestar chapter and I don’t plan any major edits here, so it should all be word count reduction.
Let’s see if I can get that chapter finished off by the end of the week. It’d be nice, too, if I can finish the edit pass by the time I’m ready to go to Disneyland.
Edited since Thursday: -69
Chapter 20 revised total: 4,733
Lament of the Dove revised total (fourth draft): 122,128
Drollerie Blog Tour: Surprise bonus post from Sarah Avery!
| June 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
Oops, I think we got some signals crossed this time around–because I’ve received not one but TWO blog posts from fellow Drollerie authors to share with y’all this time around. So what the hey, I’ll post this one too. Everybody say hey to Sarah Avery, author of Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply and Closing Arguments, and who is on Livejournal! Here’s what Sarah’s got to say about her father.
Drollerie Blog Tour: Jessica Howe on fathers
| June 21, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
It’s time for this month’s round of the Drollerie Blog Tour! Jessica Howe has visited me before, in the very first month of this year; give her a warm welcome for her return, y’all!
Back to it, she said hopefully
| June 17, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Lament of the Dove |
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A couple more pages of Chapter 20 tonight, even though it felt like pulling teeth to do it. I’ve finally reached the part of the chapter where a bit I’d previously excised from Chapter 17 needs to come back in–so I’ve had a sudden jump in word count, to the tune of a few hundred words. This is, as I’ve said before, the wrong direction.
But I’m hoping I’ll be able to make up for it once I finish slogging through this chapter and get into Chapter 21, where I can hopefully do some serious verbiage reduction.
But I think a few pages tonight is all I’m up for. More tomorrow. She hopes.
Edited tonight: +256
Chapter 20 revised total: 4,802
Lament of the Dove revised total: 122,197
Falling down on the job (Lament)
| June 16, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Lament of the Dove |
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I have been very, very lame trying to deal with Lament, and tonight, along with medical stress, the nagging of my conscience got just too much to deal with.
So I went back and doublechecked where I’d left off in Chapter 20, and made myself work through a few more pages of editing just because I need to bloody well restore my habit of working on the thing if I ever want to get it finished. So, status check: on page 11 of 19 in the chapter, and holding steady around 4,500 words. Fortunately the scene with Faanshi and Alarrah, the first scene they have together after Faanshi finds out a Certain Thing about herself and Alarrah, needed less tweaking than I thought it would.
We’ll see if I feel like doing more of this tomorrow.
Edited since the last time I worked on this thing, which was too long ago: +37
Chapter 20 revised total: 4,546
Lament of the Dove revised total (fourth draft): 121,491
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