Words and dreams

[pjthompson]

I 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

35,750 / 115,500 (31.0%)

Venus In Transit

37,000 / 100,000 (37.0%)

Comments

[pjthompson]

My backbrain and I are very close. ;-)