Just a quick peek inside the sausage factory here, along with a huge “thank you.”
Titles aren’t copyrighted, and books with similar (or identitical) titles are endemic. But none of us wanted to step on
Quite graciously, she agreed.
So here is a big shout-out and a thank you to
Posted: 6:37 am Tue March 10 2009 | Comments(2) |
Six more chapters revised on Pinion, f/k/a Tourbillon. If I had a bit more energy, I might close to the end of the line read tonight, but it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Once I get this done, it’s back in for the heavy work. The big news today, of course, was the adoption of the publication title, Pinion.
Posted: 8:12 pm Mon March 09 2009 | Comments(0) |
Tourbillon has acquired an official production title of Pinion. That makes the three book arc:
And so we rock on.
Posted: 7:37 pm Mon March 09 2009 | Comments(0) |
Six chapters on close line-edit today, along with various outbursts of writing-related program activities. Going to knock off now to rest my brain and shift gears to do some Endurance brainstorming with
Once I’m done with this read of Tourbillon (Wednesday, possibly), I’m going to go back for another pass to excise larger chunks. I need it firmly in my head first, though.
Posted: 7:25 pm Sun March 08 2009 | Comments(0) |
Three more chapters on Tourbillon today, the last two at a write-in at
Other distractions today include visiting a friend at the hospital who is probably dying right now. She was semiconscious and incoherent, but I held her hand a little while and spoke to her. And left her some flowers.
Off to a dinner out soon, more writing tomorrow.
Posted: 5:19 pm Sat March 07 2009 | Comments(0) |
I am on the third day of Tourbillon revisions, and have just finished a close read through the end of chapter four of the draft. All I’m doing right now is getting way down to the line level, editing as I go. Once I’ve gone through the book this way, and have it firmly in my head once more, I’ll go back through seeking larger scale cuts and changes. The draft is about 35% over wordcount, so a great deal of cutting and tightening will be in order.
I should have this pass done before the end of March.
Posted: 9:10 pm Fri March 06 2009 | Comments(0) |
Home. Late, sleepy, tomorrow will be very tight. Lunch with
Am informed of some serious health issues among non-LJ friends-and-family here in PDX, which is saddening.
On the plus side, I had a brilliant weekend at Potlatch, then in San Francisco helping
Also, began Tourbillon revisions today.
More to come.
Posted: 10:38 pm Wed March 04 2009 | Comments(0) |
Heading home at the end of the day today. It’s been a good few days here in the Bay Area. Potlatch was a lot of fun. Since Sunday I’ve been helping 
Some Day Jobbery now, then some Tourbillon finally (been weirdly busy the last few days), then home this evening to Nuevo Rancho Lake.
Posted: 5:50 am Wed March 04 2009 | Comments(1) |
Went out walking at 4 am, from the bottom of Cole Valley to the top of Twin Peaks. Yowza is that some hill work. This part of San Francisco is very different from my part of Portland. Met a skunk coming back down Twin Peaks. She and I had the same ideas about where to go next, and a little sarabande ensued on the darkened roadway as our mutual see-and-avoid routines went into flipping pig mode. No greater mishap occurred, thank Ghu.
Also, I thought of a rather elegant title for a piece of short military SF. So elegant I can’t think it hasn’t already been used, but I’ve never seen it, either.
In other news,
Some social stuff tonight, here tomorrow, then onward to Greater Portlandia and Nuevo Rancho Lake tomorrow evening. Y’all play nice til I get back.
Posted: 5:55 am Tue March 03 2009 | Comments(0) |
I continue to leg-wrestle with the Endurance outline. 1,500 new words yesterday and a lot of thinking. As noted before, working on Sunspin and The Heart of the Beast has seriously rearranged my outlining process. It’s a challenge, in the “growth opportunity” sense, not in the “stumbling block” sense.
I plan to be done with this by the weekend, because I need to revising Tourbillon next week. When I am done, I’ll make a more detailed post about my experience of the process shifts and what I think it might mean. Mostly what it means, I hope, is a stronger book.
Posted: 5:19 am Wed February 25 2009 | Comments(1) |