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lenora_roseStill haven't heard anything on Friday's job interview. I thought it went well, but there's plenty of ways well could still mean not good enough. I'm just glad that as far as I know, the competition is exclusively other candidates from the temp agency; a smaller pool.
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Evidence suggests that in spite of the other stories which had seemed worth spending time on, the project I'm working on in the wake of finishing the draft for the Serpent Prince is Soldier of the Road. I suppose this isn't a total surprise; it is the same character, and it is the sequel. Also, I did have to tweak some minor details when he's mentioning his backstory.
Also, I just had some good looks at mountains, and so Ketan's moments of self-indulgent travelogue got less fuzzy and fantasy, less based on reading about mountains and more like my own specific reactions. I kind of want to move one bit of said travelogue to after he's joined the soldiery, and have some ideas where to wedge it in, but overall, I think the draft runs as well as a relatively early draft would, up to the end of part four.
I did ask one friend to read it (she's only got two chapters thus far) even in this rough state so that I could have someone tell me if it works to begin the series with this book. For the same reason why once it's ready, I'm intending to ask the readers of the Serpent Prince to tell me if it can stand without sequels (though the ending is a bit of a downer, if so). I really want to be able to send out the queries for the first book saying flat out that it can be read alone, but if people want more, there's a series. Or, conversely, if the first were to fail, that I could sell the rest as a separate project.
Weirdly, the thing I'm still least sure about is exactly where the split is between Soldier of the Road and the Poisoned Tongue. I'm not sure I can avoid a cliffhanger ending and have anything remotely like the right word count. I'd rather end at a breathing point, but the best one is probably out of range word count wise.
I have had some serious plot bunnies hatching for books three and four. (Rather helped and hindered alike by reading both the Megan Whelan Turner books, with their Kings and Queens doing some heavy lifting, and by reading Lloyd Alexander's The Beggar Queen, with revolutionaries and treachery. None of whom have remotely the same plot issues, but which seem to be the right kind of food for the brain. Along with books on taking care of pet snakes.)
The biggest concern this leaves me with is whether it will leave me anything like objective enough to look at the Serpent Prince when it comes time to edit. Because it is, after all, the same damn characters. Well, the survivors are.
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Evidence suggests that in spite of the other stories which had seemed worth spending time on, the project I'm working on in the wake of finishing the draft for the Serpent Prince is Soldier of the Road. I suppose this isn't a total surprise; it is the same character, and it is the sequel. Also, I did have to tweak some minor details when he's mentioning his backstory.
Also, I just had some good looks at mountains, and so Ketan's moments of self-indulgent travelogue got less fuzzy and fantasy, less based on reading about mountains and more like my own specific reactions. I kind of want to move one bit of said travelogue to after he's joined the soldiery, and have some ideas where to wedge it in, but overall, I think the draft runs as well as a relatively early draft would, up to the end of part four.
I did ask one friend to read it (she's only got two chapters thus far) even in this rough state so that I could have someone tell me if it works to begin the series with this book. For the same reason why once it's ready, I'm intending to ask the readers of the Serpent Prince to tell me if it can stand without sequels (though the ending is a bit of a downer, if so). I really want to be able to send out the queries for the first book saying flat out that it can be read alone, but if people want more, there's a series. Or, conversely, if the first were to fail, that I could sell the rest as a separate project.
Weirdly, the thing I'm still least sure about is exactly where the split is between Soldier of the Road and the Poisoned Tongue. I'm not sure I can avoid a cliffhanger ending and have anything remotely like the right word count. I'd rather end at a breathing point, but the best one is probably out of range word count wise.
I have had some serious plot bunnies hatching for books three and four. (Rather helped and hindered alike by reading both the Megan Whelan Turner books, with their Kings and Queens doing some heavy lifting, and by reading Lloyd Alexander's The Beggar Queen, with revolutionaries and treachery. None of whom have remotely the same plot issues, but which seem to be the right kind of food for the brain. Along with books on taking care of pet snakes.)
The biggest concern this leaves me with is whether it will leave me anything like objective enough to look at the Serpent Prince when it comes time to edit. Because it is, after all, the same damn characters. Well, the survivors are.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 06:29 pm (UTC)I still find it amazing how brief the rush is. Here I am, finished a draft of something I left unfinished for AGES, and a week on, all I can think is, "I have X, Y, and Z to do next..."
I don't want to think how much worse that would be with external deadline pressure. After all, I spent a week mostly reading and not writing. And I've certainly seen some writers who don't seem to have that option.