Comments | marshall_payne: Novel progress

marshall_payne

Novel progress

Mar 01, 2009 12:30

A few weeks ago I pulled the last novel I wrote out of mothballs again. It's working title is Dark Caravan, and I never really trunked it, just that I've been focusing on short fiction for a few years. But the novel bug has gripped me again, so I've been rewriting/rekeying it from the beginning. Basically I'm tweaking and cutting at this point. The ( Read more... )

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alaneer March 1 2009, 19:10:57 UTC

Great progress, Marshall. Congrats.

marshall_payne March 1 2009, 19:13:07 UTC

Thanks, Sophy. :-)

Synchronicity . . . we haz it! selfavowedgeek March 1 2009, 19:21:34 UTC

Marshall, I kid you not.

I just replied to the other Costello comment on my entry and am currently listening to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8aN0zB8Qf8&feature=related

Now, how cool is that re: your current post?

And good deal, too, on the snippet.

Re: Synchronicity . . . we haz it! marshall_payne March 1 2009, 19:32:48 UTC

Man, Berry, we haz synchronicity. Especially with EC's line:

"But you were up to your old tricks in in chapters four, five and six."

Seeing as I'm on Chapter Six at the moment! ;-)

I hadn't seen this video. You can always come up with videos of his I haven't seen. Coolness!

Re: Synchronicity . . . we haz it! selfavowedgeek March 1 2009, 19:45:29 UTC

Tell you what, we certainly have found a bonding groove with the ol' guy, that's for sure.

Chapter Six! Exactly!

In honor of all this, I am going to post a come-all-whosoever-will entry for Elvis Costello lovers!

Re: Synchronicity . . . we haz it! marshall_payne March 1 2009, 19:48:11 UTC

Count me in! Feel free to poke a bit of fun at me if you like. I've got my EC icons in the wings ;-)

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mylefteye March 1 2009, 21:29:06 UTC

Titles are an absolute bitch. They're either there right from the beginning or they remain hidden from view for ever. I've spent weeks trying to come up with a title for chapter 16 of my current WIP. It's bugging the hell out of me and I'm cursing myself for giving each chapter a heading right now.

Nice excerpt btw.

marshall_payne March 1 2009, 21:34:39 UTC

Thanks for reading, Mike!

I usually don't have much problem coming up with titles for short stories. And while the title of a novel can be changed before publication, in my search for an agent it would help to have an eye-catching one. Perhaps I should just go with Gone with the Wind. ;-)

isaiah13 March 2 2009, 00:43:32 UTC

Wow, 5k in a day? That's killer output.

marshall_payne March 2 2009, 01:18:34 UTC

Thanks! I've seen some writers who do that many new words in a day. Not I! I'm really only rekeying and tightening. Still, the first 1k each day feels like it should've been new words. :-)

justin_pilon March 2 2009, 05:17:13 UTC

Cool news! Yep, now I'm gonna have to go and tear mine out of the mothballs.

marshall_payne March 2 2009, 11:34:45 UTC

If you don't, Justin, I'll hound you about it till Aramgeddon!