Still chuggin' along
May. 19th, 2010 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaCan't stop working on Skywatch because I'm getting published.
Okay, so I did take a day off to tell everyone who might care and maybe also to dance a lot.
As for Skywatch, Act III has all these scenes from other character's POVs, and that's working surprisingly well considering that there's been exactly two instances previous to this when I stepped out of Eshe's head. But everybody's cooperating swimmingly, and I'm getting a decent word count in every day, which is important since that seems to be the hardest part of this rough draft!
I think my worries about length are going to come to nothing--my outline seems to have budgeted too many words to Acts I and II and not enough to Act III.
Part of the problem, again, is I'm working with a genre I don't know inside and out. The Novel was a journey story, and my estimate for its rd word count in the outline came within three thousand words of the actual rd. Skywatch is a mystery, and most of the mystery I read is mixed genre--urban fantasy, superhero, high fantasy, procedural, etc. Plus I have some thriller thrown in, and I suspect this is where a lot of the words in Act III are coming from. Eshe has Epic Stuff happening to her.
I'm also eyeing my calender and calculating how much time I have to finish Skywatch's rd if I want it finished by WisCon. I submitted the first couple of chapters to the writing workshop, and I'd like to have the draft finished so I can take the big picture into account with everyone's critiques. I also have to budget time for critiquing my group's work, and since we're all novelists, it has to be a serious chunk of time per person.
Somewhere in there I also have to fit looking over the programming and calling the person I'm staying with to arrange travel. And the occasional flash of getting-published glee.
It keeps hitting me at random moments. I'll pause for a second and grin irrepressibly, 'cause y'all, I'm getting published in Sword and Sorceress!
Okay, so I did take a day off to tell everyone who might care and maybe also to dance a lot.
As for Skywatch, Act III has all these scenes from other character's POVs, and that's working surprisingly well considering that there's been exactly two instances previous to this when I stepped out of Eshe's head. But everybody's cooperating swimmingly, and I'm getting a decent word count in every day, which is important since that seems to be the hardest part of this rough draft!
I think my worries about length are going to come to nothing--my outline seems to have budgeted too many words to Acts I and II and not enough to Act III.
Part of the problem, again, is I'm working with a genre I don't know inside and out. The Novel was a journey story, and my estimate for its rd word count in the outline came within three thousand words of the actual rd. Skywatch is a mystery, and most of the mystery I read is mixed genre--urban fantasy, superhero, high fantasy, procedural, etc. Plus I have some thriller thrown in, and I suspect this is where a lot of the words in Act III are coming from. Eshe has Epic Stuff happening to her.
I'm also eyeing my calender and calculating how much time I have to finish Skywatch's rd if I want it finished by WisCon. I submitted the first couple of chapters to the writing workshop, and I'd like to have the draft finished so I can take the big picture into account with everyone's critiques. I also have to budget time for critiquing my group's work, and since we're all novelists, it has to be a serious chunk of time per person.
Somewhere in there I also have to fit looking over the programming and calling the person I'm staying with to arrange travel. And the occasional flash of getting-published glee.
It keeps hitting me at random moments. I'll pause for a second and grin irrepressibly, 'cause y'all, I'm getting published in Sword and Sorceress!