Words and dreams
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pjthompsonI didn't get much work done on Venus this week. It's hard to keep "the dream" of two novels in my consciousness at once, I'm finding. Angels, by necessity, has been dominating.
I did manage to do some serious worldbuilding for a short story set in Neolithic times. Both Venus and Angels have most of the significant worldbuilding behind them, so this other story allowed me to indulge in something else while I hammered away at Angels. I should also note that "serious worldbuilding for a short story" does imply that I'm doing my usual trick of trying to write a mini-novel. I think this idea may have novelistic potential somewhere down the line, but I also think there's a genuine short story that I can extract from this, a "moment in time" or "moment in two times" that converge in an abbreviated fashion. I hope. We'll see. I do like the idea, though.
I've made some good progress on Angel, as well. My back brain presented me with the solution to a certain plot hole that had me tearing my hair out. I thought it would entail ripping out huge sections and rewriting, but Yay, Hineybrain! It came up with a simple solution that I think works well without me having to resort to hari kiri.
A Rain of Angels
Venus In Transit
I did manage to do some serious worldbuilding for a short story set in Neolithic times. Both Venus and Angels have most of the significant worldbuilding behind them, so this other story allowed me to indulge in something else while I hammered away at Angels. I should also note that "serious worldbuilding for a short story" does imply that I'm doing my usual trick of trying to write a mini-novel. I think this idea may have novelistic potential somewhere down the line, but I also think there's a genuine short story that I can extract from this, a "moment in time" or "moment in two times" that converge in an abbreviated fashion. I hope. We'll see. I do like the idea, though.
I've made some good progress on Angel, as well. My back brain presented me with the solution to a certain plot hole that had me tearing my hair out. I thought it would entail ripping out huge sections and rewriting, but Yay, Hineybrain! It came up with a simple solution that I think works well without me having to resort to hari kiri.
A Rain of Angels
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35,750 / 115,500 (31.0%) |
Venus In Transit
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37,000 / 100,000 (37.0%) |
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Date: 2008-06-03 01:13 am (UTC)I'm learning to trust my own hindbrain, finally. It does a far better job than I can force from my fingers, sometimes. :)
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Date: 2008-06-03 05:06 pm (UTC)