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Jan. 11th, 2009 03:41 pm
World of Writecraft
Kyla Ward (1st level Necromance-er) has earned the achievement
SECOND DRAFT OF ACT I
I started the rewrite last October. The process is taking longer than I had hoped, due to the large slabs I ended up having to rewrite from scratch so they made sense. I already know there will be large changes to the second Act. I can only shudder at the likely state of Act 3, which I wrote in such a rush last year.
Consciously dividing this novel into Acts was one of the things I did when planning the second draft and has actually helped enormously. I have great respect for traditional narrative, despite being co-author of "a piece of outre weirdness with an experimental structure" (as Prismatic is described by Rob Hood in "The End of the Line", Black #3. Thanks again, Rob! ) Among other things, it allows me to compare my word count with the same point in the first draft. At this rate, the second draft will be about 10,000 words longer, less depressing and make more sense.
Necromance is the first volume in a projected series. The next two books have been plotted in detail and the two after that in brief. I have written the majority of the world "bible", including a detailed history starting three hundred years prior to the books, and drawn some interesting maps, as well as putting together a soundtrack. I am, in short, reasonably ready to run the RPG, if only that would get the rewrite done and my regular group had any tolerance for highly emotional, character-driven stories heavy on investigation and mood (come on guys! You know what happened the last time I tried to run Call of Cthulhu!)
This writing stuff is intense. And things keep happening, like bits of relevant information falling into my lap and places described in the book (which is set in central Sydney) looking and feeling strange, and maybe, possibly, some ritualistic synergy? I put it all down to normal, writerly obsession of course. And fatigue toxins.
Now to go let the creatures of Azeroth know how much I love them.
SECOND DRAFT OF ACT I
I started the rewrite last October. The process is taking longer than I had hoped, due to the large slabs I ended up having to rewrite from scratch so they made sense. I already know there will be large changes to the second Act. I can only shudder at the likely state of Act 3, which I wrote in such a rush last year.
Consciously dividing this novel into Acts was one of the things I did when planning the second draft and has actually helped enormously. I have great respect for traditional narrative, despite being co-author of "a piece of outre weirdness with an experimental structure" (as Prismatic is described by Rob Hood in "The End of the Line", Black #3. Thanks again, Rob! ) Among other things, it allows me to compare my word count with the same point in the first draft. At this rate, the second draft will be about 10,000 words longer, less depressing and make more sense.
Necromance is the first volume in a projected series. The next two books have been plotted in detail and the two after that in brief. I have written the majority of the world "bible", including a detailed history starting three hundred years prior to the books, and drawn some interesting maps, as well as putting together a soundtrack. I am, in short, reasonably ready to run the RPG, if only that would get the rewrite done and my regular group had any tolerance for highly emotional, character-driven stories heavy on investigation and mood (come on guys! You know what happened the last time I tried to run Call of Cthulhu!)
This writing stuff is intense. And things keep happening, like bits of relevant information falling into my lap and places described in the book (which is set in central Sydney) looking and feeling strange, and maybe, possibly, some ritualistic synergy? I put it all down to normal, writerly obsession of course. And fatigue toxins.
Now to go let the creatures of Azeroth know how much I love them.
