Category Archives: –Novel

Stalling

7/12/2007 – 12:44 pm

The novel is stuck at 68K words and I can’t seem to make it go. I kinda sorta know where I want things to go but I’m running smack into the whole Freudian unconscious, Jungian collective unconscious/archetypal…thing. I’ve got the whole “on the surface it looks clean but a peek beneath reveals it’s nasty-dirty” groove [...]

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Novel Updatery

7/10/2007 – 1:31 pm

As of this moment the novel stands at 67,493 words. The Fourth of July screwed me up a bit and I ended up being 2500 words under my weekly goal of 10K words but I’m getting astonishingly close to the finish line. I suspect I’ll have the first draft done before the month is out, [...]

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Audio Gaffs

6/29/2007 – 10:57 am

I’m always astonished by pronunciation gaffs in audio books. I don’t expect the readers to pronounce everything correctly, but I do expect an audio editor to do some follow up. I mean, retakes have to be a necessity when recording 20 hours of reading, so I can’t figure out why these blips aren’t picked up. [...]

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Book Updatery

6/15/2007 – 11:43 am

I’m a little over half-way through with The Time Traveler’s Wife and I’m still liking it, but not loving it. I can’t avoid the fact that I feel the book is too long; even if it’s breakneck speed from here to the end, it still probably could have lost a fifth or a quarter of [...]

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Mapping the Novel

6/14/2007 – 8:03 am

My novel, tentatively titled Kingdoms of Glass and Steel takes place in New York City. Originally, I had it broken into eight chunks: a prologue, action happening in each of the five boroughs and two for Manhattan (so it goes Manhattan, Staten Island, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan again), and an epilogue. Ideally, the novel [...]

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