Good writing weekend!
Mar. 7th, 2006 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawaspThis weekend was a good one for writing; Kathleen and company were able to avoid major kid disasters or blowups, so I ended up with both Saturday and Sunday clear. I was in a Jason Wood mood on Saturday and wrote nearly 5,000 words in the first new Morgantown story since I finished Digital Knight back in early 2003; title is "Shadow of Fear". On Sunday, I went over 15,000 words on Threshold, the sequel to Boundary. Effectively I think this is over 20,000, as there's quite a few additions I expect from Eric.
Threshold is probably going to be the hardest of the three Boundary-universe books to write; we're developing the political, social, and personal universe equally in Threshold, and it's COMPLICATED. I was able to sort of fake out all of the stuff in Boundary, even though Eric seriously modified things; I can't pull that off on some of these, though. Eric will have to write those sections and, for once, I'll have to edit/smooth out his stuff to make it fit with mine. There's also a LOT of new science-related stuff I'm having to do -- people on Baen's Bar are seeing some of that, with me asking questions about nuclear reactors and superconductors and orbital calculations -- which isn't easy, even though I can (as an SF writer) decide to occasionally handwave away practical difficulties. Once Threshold is done, I'll have a good enough grasp of the entire universe to just write the next one, at least as a rough first draft. But Threshold itself is going to "be a pure bitch", as Maddie would say.
Threshold is probably going to be the hardest of the three Boundary-universe books to write; we're developing the political, social, and personal universe equally in Threshold, and it's COMPLICATED. I was able to sort of fake out all of the stuff in Boundary, even though Eric seriously modified things; I can't pull that off on some of these, though. Eric will have to write those sections and, for once, I'll have to edit/smooth out his stuff to make it fit with mine. There's also a LOT of new science-related stuff I'm having to do -- people on Baen's Bar are seeing some of that, with me asking questions about nuclear reactors and superconductors and orbital calculations -- which isn't easy, even though I can (as an SF writer) decide to occasionally handwave away practical difficulties. Once Threshold is done, I'll have a good enough grasp of the entire universe to just write the next one, at least as a rough first draft. But Threshold itself is going to "be a pure bitch", as Maddie would say.
Re: Excellent!
Date: 2006-03-11 08:03 pm (UTC)BTW, you never did review Diamonds!
Re: Excellent!
Date: 2006-03-12 05:42 pm (UTC)I thought I had reviewed Diamonds...
Well, it will have to wait for another day. I'm not going to spend much time on the computer today unless you send PBEM updates. I've got too much else to do.