I feel as if I am always struggling to catch up. And no, I have not even started Christmas shopping. I’ve also written a book review column for F&SF. So the first writing thing I want to do is catch up on those words. I have difficulty working on two projects simultaneously at the end of a novel. I mentioned I’m a week behind in Oracle words. I think it will be finished in three months–but I have no publication date for it, yet. I have also been–except for the last “OMG IT’S DECEMBER!!!” week, been working on Oracle. Or if there is, I haven’t seen it yet :). Apparently, according to Amazon & B&N, the book’s On Sale date is the 29th of July, 2014. So the book I was certain would be finished by 30 November wasn’t finished by 30 November. Generally it takes more words than that to actually write the (elided) section. It’s easy to think “and then (elided) will happen, and then it will be over!”. I was very happy when I had 80K words of Cast in Flame because I was certain the book would only be 120K words long (which is generally considered long in today’s market). November was largely one small first world crisis after another (things like: washing machine dying), with writing wedged in between moments of “OMG can’t any of this wait until December?”. I am about a week’s worth of words behind on Oracle. I will be behind on twitter as of tomorrow. Or both, although it’s harder to watch what I say when I’m sleeping. This was supposed to be a post at the end of November, but November kind of got away from me, in the sense that a book was due at the end of it and it was not finished yet.īut it is now December, and the book is finished, so I am allowed to post.
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