Paksworld

Progress on the NEW new book–the one after the one that will be published next (which is, other than editor-requested revisions and production-related work–done.

Total wordage at the moment: 61,000 words.

New wordage (yesterday and today) 1700+ words continuous, plus some fill-in bits here and there.

As some of you know from my LJ and SFF.net newsgroup postings, most of this was written when I thought it was part of the “old” new book, Blood and Bone. Yes, if you’re going full-blast it’s possible to write almost 60,000 words past the end of a book…sort of like skidding past a stop sign. Now I need to get back up to speed…this gives me a nice start on the next book, which means I could finish it faster than the contract demands. That would be good for all of us. If it’s about the same length as the one I just did, this is just over a third of it. I’ll start pushing for 2000 words/day after Christmas. Or maybe today.

Surprise has already landed on me–I thought things were going smoothly in a certain quarter but discovered last night that Someone doesn’t like Someone else’s father, and this is going to put a very large monkey-wrench in the works.

Monkey-wrenches in the works make for good plots later on, but still…I wanted this one thing to work smoothly and monkey wrenches to cause a problem somewhere else.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled Sunday programming. (I’m home today for two good reasons, neither of them relevant to the topic.)