3/30/2023 0 Comments Focuswriter flip pages![]() Grandma once told me, you get old enough, and it’s like living with a roommate.īut Grandpa loved her, and I learned to see the signs. I don’t remember seeing them kiss, or saying “I love you” to one other. I don’t remember seeing much physical affection between my grandparents. I tell people everything I learned about watching your money I learned from Papa. And he knew the exact location of every penny he had. He’d give you money for the ice cream truck, but act like he’d got the cash from a bank heist or something. He was always letting me in on secrets like that. To this day I have no idea what that green slime was. Don’t say anything cause it’d make the other fishermen angry if they found out. He told me to dip the bait in it, but keep it quiet. One time we all went down to the reservoir to go fishing, and sure enough he took me aside and pulled out a little jar of green slime. In the meantime, Hester, the Kookburra King, and I are taking a well-deserved break. And now NaNoWriMo is just around the corner I’ll post my plans for that soon. I’ve edited a one hundred thousand word novel, often putting in twenty hours a week on top of my normal job. I’ve completed a huge leg in what seemed at first like an insurmountable journey. I also need to do the same work for Pawsgaard. ![]() I need to revisit the language and bump up the writing from good to excellent (especially in the first half). I need to read it through cover to cover and take copious notes. The complete story is there, readable, and is actually enjoyable. A lot of unpleasant and unnecessarily repetitive themes have been cut out. All temporary or substitute text is gone. The plot and pacing have been restructured, and most if not all of the inconsistencies have been addressed. It is however, a great improvement over Draft 0. The novel is, unfortunately, not yet ready to be shared. This revision, Draft 1, is 86,746 words, for an overall cut of 13%. They say that in your first revision you should cut down your story by 10%. I printed it out on 430 double spaced pages, almost a whole ream of paper! It was 2 inches thick! The original draft of HatKK, Draft 0, was 100,227 words long. I re-released the story soon after, and in multiple ebook formats. In fact in the middle of editing HatKK I made the decision to revisit Pawsgaard to fix some plot issues. It’s been a long haul, and there were plenty of distractions along the way. It’s been 8 months and 6 days since I started editing Hester and the Kookaburra King, my 2010 NaNoWriMo novel written in the Guineawick Tales universe. jon Draft 1 of Hester and the Kookaburra King is complete after 8 months, 6 days I intend to hit 50,000 words as soon as possible, so that I can get back to editing my other stories and getting them into readers’ hands.īest of luck to my fellow writers. I’ve been tweaking the whole system for months now. ![]() ![]() I’ll keep track of my daily progress in a spreadsheet. I’ll be using Pomodroido on my phone to schedule my time and improve my productivity. This year I also add bazaar for version control and to sync my work to my personal server (and into my offsite backup system). As with previous years, I’ll be writing in the ever awesome FocusWriter, now using txt2tags for markup. In layman’s terms that means an ultra portable little monster with a near instant boot time and a fourteen hour battery life. She’s got a 1.6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB SSD hard drive, and a 12-cell battery. This year I’ve torn that outline (and those early drafts) apart and have re-envisioned a much tighter story overall.Īs with the last two years, both will be written on Cortana, my veteran ASUS netbook. Trump is a story I outlined in the months before NaNoWriMo last year, after positive feedback and interest on the first few chapters by my former writing group. The challenge will be to write a gritty children’s story without going too far. I plan for a lot of character growth: the eager upstart Guardmouse will not have it easy. I’ve taken about three days to outline them both a close shave, but I think I’m prepared.Ī short adventure of the Guardmouse Aman, set during the events of Hester and the Kookaburra King.Ī bio-tech adaptation of the John Henry folk legend.Īman is in keeping with my plan to alternate short story, novel, short story, novel, etc for the Guineawick Tales series. This year I’m tackling two short stories instead of one full-length novel. Less than an hour until NaNoWriMo hits the west coast with a flurry of keystrokes. ![]()
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