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Amazingly productive weekend
I had a long list of things on the to-do list for this weekend. And I did accomplish a trip to Regan Nursery where I bought a yellow tree-rose (carefully situated to continue the symmetry of the existing three) and a White Pearmain apple tree (which will live in a pot until I decide where it goes). But a vast amount of today's planned activities got tossed out in favor of making a push to complete the revisions and fill-ins for Daughter of Mystery I now have an actual, complete, realio-trulio, readable draft to send off to my beta-readers. All names and vocabulary are in place. All literary quotations and ritual texts have been composed. All time-line rearrangements have been smoothed out and continuity-checked. I've even made sure to plant a few more items that tie in to Book 2.
Current word-count is 132K which is up 5K from the raw first draft -- most of which is accounted for by completing the "promissory" items. It undoubtedly needs some trimming, but I'll leave that for the next round. Wow. I started working on this story in November 2007. I don't intend for Book 2 to take that much time ... but then, I'm using the same setting, many of the same characters, and already have a fairly rich layering of plots and sub-plots going on. (And having already started on Book 2 gives me something to occupy myself while waiting for the next steps for Book 1.) I kind of feel like a real live author at the moment.
And, hey, there's still time to get the curtains sewn.
Current word-count is 132K which is up 5K from the raw first draft -- most of which is accounted for by completing the "promissory" items. It undoubtedly needs some trimming, but I'll leave that for the next round. Wow. I started working on this story in November 2007. I don't intend for Book 2 to take that much time ... but then, I'm using the same setting, many of the same characters, and already have a fairly rich layering of plots and sub-plots going on. (And having already started on Book 2 gives me something to occupy myself while waiting for the next steps for Book 1.) I kind of feel like a real live author at the moment.
And, hey, there's still time to get the curtains sewn.