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Mar. 7th, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienThere's an Amazon depot in Phoenix now, which means that occasionally my orders turn up only a couple of days after they ship. Today that happened with the next Malazan book (hardcover, US edition) and Iain M. Banks' Matter. The interesting thing about the Banks is that I think it's the first one I've bought that isn't a UK edition. (I was also amused to confirm, by finding the boarding pass still tucked into the back of the book, that I was reading Excession on the plane over when I flew out to live here in 1997.)
No writing tonight. I think the novel is trying to tell me something -- something that involves going back and putting in POV scenes for the offstage internet boyfriend. I certainly need to think a bit, before he finally meets heroine in the flesh, about what he figured out when. I suspect he's too smart not to have deduced whose son he is before he actually meets his parents, however hard the Shipwights tried to hide it. Heroine obviously doesn't know that yet, though she's had at least one moment of "That's funny -- no, must be a coincidence." Given that heroine is very smart indeed in some ways, this may need to be addressed at some point.
I'm behind on the writing as it is, and travel season is going to hit hard in a couple more weeks: Napa at the end of March, another trip at the end of April, and then Florida and Montana back-to-back in the last week of May and the first week of June, probably to be followed by an extended UK trip in July and then another meeting in Boulder in August. Perhaps the thing will go easier once I figure out the plot. I really should give in and admit that the first draft is going to run well over 100K, though. It might shrink again later; I've never pulled that off yet, having if anything a tendency to underwrite on the first draft and expand later, but I'm not saying I never will.
No writing tonight. I think the novel is trying to tell me something -- something that involves going back and putting in POV scenes for the offstage internet boyfriend. I certainly need to think a bit, before he finally meets heroine in the flesh, about what he figured out when. I suspect he's too smart not to have deduced whose son he is before he actually meets his parents, however hard the Shipwights tried to hide it. Heroine obviously doesn't know that yet, though she's had at least one moment of "That's funny -- no, must be a coincidence." Given that heroine is very smart indeed in some ways, this may need to be addressed at some point.
I'm behind on the writing as it is, and travel season is going to hit hard in a couple more weeks: Napa at the end of March, another trip at the end of April, and then Florida and Montana back-to-back in the last week of May and the first week of June, probably to be followed by an extended UK trip in July and then another meeting in Boulder in August. Perhaps the thing will go easier once I figure out the plot. I really should give in and admit that the first draft is going to run well over 100K, though. It might shrink again later; I've never pulled that off yet, having if anything a tendency to underwrite on the first draft and expand later, but I'm not saying I never will.