Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
Getting the Facts across
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008I’ve an encounter in NitS where the hero tracks down the expert on how real world and fantasy world physics collide. I think it works pretty well but after reading John August’s blog post How to explain quantum mechanics I’ll certainly be applying his advice to make it better.
NitS: Ongoing Slog
Monday, March 10th, 2008Today I passed the three quarters point on the first redraft. I’m doing a bit of polishing and fixing but mostly its about looking for plot holes so I can fix them in draft 2. Fortunately so far I’m plesantly surprised how few there are. The biggest one, a remanant from when the story was […]
Mrs H.'s Knitting Circle – Accepted!
Friday, March 7th, 2008Just got an e-mail from Astonishing Adventures Magazine to say they’ll be including Mrs H.’s Knitting Circle in issue 3. Woo Ho 🙂 Here is a little taster to wet your appetite… The sap felt good in my hand. It felt good as it connected with the back of his head. He’d have surprised me […]
Mrs H.'s Knitting Circle – Away
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Well after seven drafts I’ve sent Mrs H.’s Knitting Circle off.
Mrs H.'s Knitting Circle – Fixing the Wandering Tense
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008I’ve been making some corrections to Mrs H.’s Knitting Circle tonight. One section wandered into the present tense while the rest of the story is pretty much solid past tense. Reading it again the present tense added to the drama – well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. It didn’t fit with the […]
NitS: Edit 1 Half Way There
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008I passed the 50% mark on the first redraft of NitS tonight. A certain sense of relief tempered by a realisation of how much work I have left to do. This pass has been mainly aimed at picking up all the gross slips in continuity and the plot. By the endo of it I should […]
NitS Inner Story Done
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Earlier this week I finished the first draft of the inner story that sits at the heart of Night in the Sidhe. It needs a lot of editing. There are lots of scenes that are too short where I sketched over the action to get to the end. I’ve started working my way through it […]
NitS Beginnings and Endings
Sunday, January 13th, 2008I was worried about the structure of NitS. It lacked a climatic ending and I wasn’t too sure that the opening was really able to grab the reader. As I’ve been working towards the end I’ve discovered not one but two potential climatic confrontations so thats one problem solved. As to the opening I’ve decided […]
I don't make New Year Resolutions…
Thursday, January 10th, 2008… But if I had and it had been to get a shift on with Night in the Sidhe I’d be doing well so far. Admittedly tidying up the current draft last night actually cut it down by several thousand words. I’ve move note and fragments of story without a home in the current structure […]
More NitS Progress
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Not so much of a big bang of progress over the last few days but anoter 1000 words or so have tied together some fragments of plot. I’ve managed to inflict a bit of rewritting on myself that I’ll have to do to make an innocuous object appear earlier in the story but thats what […]