![]() I’m almost glad we’ll be inside with the heater on, editing.Īlthough, I confess, our heater is great when it’s working, but the thermostat is placed in the one part of the house where it’s always warm. We had the first real frost of winter today. Cut the words, add the words, cut some more. Sometimes our word counts feel like Sisyphus. Chapter one’s pretty long, so we’re trying to pare down the newsletter to a reasonable size. This will include the first chapter of Stars Uncharted, so it’s going to be mammoth. We’re busy putting the finishing touches to our April newsletter. Keep an eye on the giveaways there if you want a copy, as we don’t always know about these when they happen so we don’t publicise them. The publisher has given some away on Goodreads. The ARCs for Stars Uncharted have started going out to book bloggers and reviewers. Sometimes you can’t see it then, either, and your agent or your editor has to point it out to you. It’s amazing how you can go over a book ten, twenty times and still not see something so obvious until the last minute. We have to deliver the novel in six weeks.īased on prior novels, there’ll probably a couple of obvious issues we discover really late. “This will sound better if we do this,” or “If we move that section down past here the timeline will flow better.” Of course, some of those changes have flow-on effects, but that’s the way it is with rewrites. ![]() We’re at that stage in writing where every change we’re making is a positive change. It has a current, tentative title of Stars Beyond. We’re making good progress on the next batch of rewrites for Stars Book 2. So while I wait for the Nurofen to kick in, let me tell you what’s been happening in our writing world lately. ![]() Many writers are notoriously bad at keeping fit. I’d like to say it’s living proof that writers shouldn’t do housework, but unfortunately the reality is that this particular writer hasn’t been doing enough of anything active, housework included, to keep herself supple. I pulled a muscle in my back this morning while cleaning the bath. It doesn’t feel that common in Australia-maybe it is, maybe we never noticed it-but since it was used in the blurb on Stars Uncharted we’ve noticed it everywhere. There are lots of books about people who join up as a team (a little bit of the found family we talked about last week), but I wasn’t aware that there was a word to describe them. We’ve learned that a ‘ragtag’ crew is a thing. It’s funny how when you write a book you think it’s so unique, but it turns out that it’s not. There’s one month to go for the release of Stars Uncharted. My body can’t take that sort of punishment any more. I spent a couple of hours rereading book three, trying to work out if they had, or if in my skimming I couldn’t find where they covered it. In my skimming I thought I missed something important because the end I felt as the author had left a major plot-hole. (I’m not going to name them, because the first book was so good I went and bought the second two, and by the end of book two I was going, ‘Huh’, and book three I just skimmed. By the time I woke up it was way, way past getting-to-work time.)Īnyway, I read three books yesterday, straight through, stopping only for lunch and dinner. (The only day I ever took off work for reading happened because I stayed up till 6:00am reading Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Fate. Maybe bed, if the book’s too good I’ll read through the night to finish. I’m a fast reader, I tend to open a book and read through to the end, stopping only for work, dinner and bed. ![]() I’ve had a lazy week, reading lots of books. This is the sort of ship a ragtag band of explorers like Hammond Roystan and his crew might use. Windows make a ship more vulnerable, and a lot more expensive to heat.
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