Brief updates
I’ve been sort of sparse with the updating lately. At the moment, I’ve been pretty busy with latte-making and the like to do any significant work on Lanternfly. My main focus right now is getting concepts and behind the scenes stuff to a point where I feel comfortable mapping out the scenes I’ve got, figuring out what I need, and then implementing it all. On top of actually getting the manuscript the way I want it, I certaintly still miles away from actually finishing this beast.
The phase I’m entering with the book is completely unexplored territory as far as my developmental processes go. Already I can see places where I can speed up parts of my drafting to allay the amount of editing I know I’m going to have to do on this book in future projects. One of these things is chapter structure, which I’m ditching from the book entirely for the moment so I won’t feel bound by chapter lengths. That was a huge problem when I was working on the first draft and probably a reason why the book is so damn long. Given I have to add another plot line and a half (30,000 words, ballpark), that will come in handy when the time comes to start chopping away excess flesh.
In other news, I’m leaving next Tuesday for California, where I generally do my year’s best writing. In 2006, I wrote a major chunk of Salamander, and completed some of the main concepts of Lanternfly in 2007, and wrote some key scenes in 2008. It’s sort of rediculous that this is the third summer in a row I’ll be working on this book, and how much it’s grown since then.
As always, onwards! Thanks for reading.