Riding the Vaucoos-novel progress

[marshall_payne]

I've had a great week of progress on the fantasy novel I'm rewriting. Over 15k so far this week. I'm past the halfway mark and am at 58,000 words total. Mostly I'm giving the story "wings" by getting rid of a few lead shoes of unneeded exposition. And cutting some extraneous dialogue that doesn't need to be there.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter

Comments

[jtglover]

Go, Marshall, go!

Also, 'periapt' is a wonderful word.

[marshall_payne]

Thanks, John. For some reason I have an aversion to overused words like "magic" and "spell." So I try to throw in a "cantrip" or "periapt" whenever I can without making it smell of the lamp, I hope. *g*

[jjschwabach]

Awesome word count!

I hate editing my own stuff. I always end up second-guessing myself.

[marshall_payne]

Thanks, Jennifer!

I think it was C.S. Lewis who described being a writer as: "You spend all morning working on your story, which amounts to putting in a comma. Then you spend the afternoon taking that comma out!"

[jjschwabach]

That sounds about right.

[marshall_payne]

Thanks, Barbara!

[isaiah13]

Man, I wish I could pump out words at that rate. I think I used to, like a year or two ago, but for some reason I can't seem to get on that kind of roll anymore. :-(

[marshall_payne]

That's one of the reasons I decided to go back to novel-writing. With short stories, I'd lost the roll.

[jjschwabach]

I think it will come back. I had trouble writing at all last year, but now it's flowing again. What I did was to put every project aside but one. I still have ideas on others, but they must wait until the draft of this project is done. Which I hope will be by the end of April.

[isaiah13]

I hope you're right. Seems to happen to every writer now and again, but a person still can't help but worry, you know?

[melissajm]

Yay! Keep going!

[marshall_payne]

Thanks! :-)