Apr. 3rd, 2016

hrj: (Alpennia w text)
About an hour ago, I finished the second editing pass through Mother of Souls I'm planning to send it out to beta-readers next weekend. (I have to write up the "questions to consider" list first.) I'm still weak on a few of the special topic beta-readers that I'd like to have. (My experience is that 50% of beta-readers fail to deliver comments, generally because Life Happens. So I'm terrified of relying on a single person for a particular topic/viewpoint.)

But at the moment, I'm feeling kind of floaty about this. Part of that is because I feel like for the first time (out of three novels) I've actually nailed the ending solidly. Endings are hard. I wasn't entirely happy with how I finished off the first two books. But this one. Oh man. Oh man.

Go listen to Dvorak's "Carnival Overture". Listen to it with your whole body. That's the last few chapters of Mother of Souls.

(I've started developing a secret longing to have some group of Alpennia fans decide to actually write and perform Luzie Valorin's opera "Tanfrit".)

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