Paksworld

2216 words today so far

79,338 in book II

If I’m fizzing with music energy when I get home from choir, I may try to rip off that last 662 words to make an even 80,000 at midweek.

Then, if I can pop the next two days up to 2500 each, I’d be at 85,000 and caught up from the slump last week.    A dangerous game to play, though, esp. with my hands and the need to nurture these blogs.

It feels good to have the routine building in again, though.   I have spurts of greater natural productivity, but 2000/day is a comfortable range for me–enough to keep the story alive mentally, but not the strain that it was last fall.

Editors on both sides of the Atlantic and their respective powers that be (upstairs, the suits, the bean-counters) have agreed, so Oath of Fealty is now the official (until something breaks) title.

The comment from someone upstairs at Del Rey (“upstairs” is a hierachal terms, in this instance, not  architectural)  was that this title would work if we weren’t trying to go outside the core audience.  Which I’m not, though the Paks books have pulled in some very interesting readers.