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Alpennia Blog: Slow progress
Jan. 12th, 2016 07:42 amI'm gradually working my way through a first pass on Mother of Souls. This isn't a serious re-read yet. The overt purpose is to create my chapter-by-chapter table of who appears in, or is mentioned in, each chapter. This helps me tell whether I'm tracking all the minor characters properly. (Or when I've mentioned a minor character who never appears again and should be cut.) It makes it easier to tell where I should do an "introductory description" at the earliest opportunity. And it points out when I should remind readers who a minor character is, if they haven't been mentioned for a while.
The second purpose is to begin making mental notes about larger elements that need to be fixed up. Continuity issues that have changed, pieces of action or backstory that I decided to include in later chapters and need to be removed from earlier ones, places where I need to plant seeds for events I introduced later. I'm not making active notes for this yet (although I occasionally circle bits of text for later review).
In the mean time, I'm having a lot of fun with my little Musketeer thing. Well, maybe not so "little". It's over 8000 words and less than half done. I suspect I'm going to hit a point where I have to make a decision about whether it wants to be a novelette or a novella. Fortunately, marketing doesn't have to factor in to this decision, since I've decided to use this as a freebie for promotional purposes. (I'm thinking of timing the release to draw people to my upcoming renovated website.)
The second purpose is to begin making mental notes about larger elements that need to be fixed up. Continuity issues that have changed, pieces of action or backstory that I decided to include in later chapters and need to be removed from earlier ones, places where I need to plant seeds for events I introduced later. I'm not making active notes for this yet (although I occasionally circle bits of text for later review).
In the mean time, I'm having a lot of fun with my little Musketeer thing. Well, maybe not so "little". It's over 8000 words and less than half done. I suspect I'm going to hit a point where I have to make a decision about whether it wants to be a novelette or a novella. Fortunately, marketing doesn't have to factor in to this decision, since I've decided to use this as a freebie for promotional purposes. (I'm thinking of timing the release to draw people to my upcoming renovated website.)
