channonyarrow

Iiiii mostly finished my book last week. I say "mostly" because I wrote a character study for one of the two main characters and wound up saying "Actually, this explains a lot" (because I don't understand what character studies are, evidently) and jammed it into the book between section one and two. I need to do the same thing for the other main character and put that between sections two and three. But since it doesn't have any impact on the main plot, I was able to keep writing that (slowly) and so now all I have left is N's story. The book is out to one reader already; I'm going to write N's bit, then do a really stern edit, and then send it to two other people. After that, I will edit it again and then collect a favour from a professional editor of my acquaintance, then try finding an agent or a publisher for it, apparently.

in the middle of all that, I also need to start the next book, because this wound up being a duology. (Look, it could either be a duology, or it could be A Feast For Crows, which is a lot harder to sell.) Which is hysterical, because it's probably going to be about 100-110K with N's story, so I'm hoping that for everything I cut for being garbage I will be able to add better things, like dialogue and motivation. I'm constantly bemused by the fact I think it's really pretty good and at the same time there are all these dropped plot hooks and oh my god it's practically just a really really detailed plot outline. But it has taken a lot of years to get to the point I thought I could write it, I wrote it, I rewrote it repeatedly and started over like four times, and now I think it has pretty much passed its first major milestone.

Which is pretty cool, tbh.