FIRST DRAFT.

9900 ww.

*from the floor* Now gimme my Hugo.

Rewrites on draft zero of Acc Dragon today, in the hopes of turning it into draft one. I'm watching a doco called "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" about the Deep Blue match. Cool documentary, worst DVD transfer I've ever seen. ETA: Bloody awful sound, too. And no subtitles! Why is one of the interviews delivered in a whisper, even though the ( Read more... )

DRAFT ZERO at 9200 words.

TONIGHT YOU DIE, ACC DRAGON. Or I do.

I have no idea how many words of Acc Dragon I wrote today, but it's currently 8500 words long. The real possibility of finishing the fucker, this very week, dazzles me. I have no idea when I started it - its first mention in this LJ is in July 2007, and describes me as "getting back to the novel". Looks like I chucked that and started on the short ( Read more... )

As with any task I have put off for a long time, I am slightly bewildered to have finally written that bloody epic chess game scene (650 ww.)

I've only written a few lines this morning, but I've done something much more useful - got the whole first half of the story to make sense. All it took was to move a couple of scenes around and it all suddenly slotted into place ( Read more... )

Well then, Accelerated Dragon, my old friend.

IT'S YOU OR ME, BITCH.

I dunno how many actual words of Accelerated Dragon I put on the page today, but it totals 6700 ww and I partly solved the main remaining plot problem. Gah, I just feel like I don't know wtf I'm doing any more.

... right, where the hell was I?

Accelerated Dragon. Overall plot OK, individual scenes need plotting, maybe 1/3 written. Pull out finger and finish.

The Burning Room. Owe co-author character outlines.

Wild Honey. LORD TAKE ME NOW. Still have no idea of how to make last third work. Put in folder for later.

Strawberry Peppermint Stamp Collection ( Read more... )