Some novel thoughts.

[uisgebeatha]

The first edit is done. Oh yes, it is done, and with my editor. Having spent a fortnight doing nothing but prodding the thing, I sat down and did a bit of number-crunching on it.

Comments

[ext_208701]

I'll buy it. If it's good I'll even buy the sequel!

[ghoti]

Hurray! You wrote a novel!

[uisgebeatha]

WOO YAY

By the way, I've not forgotten about our Roman foods date...let me know when is good for you guys and if I'm not mooching round housey things I am so there x

[kimbleshi]

It sounds really cool and I look forward to buying and reading it :)

[uisgebeatha]

Aww, thankee! I hope people enjoy it...I mostly wrote it for myself, but the folk that I threw it at seem to think it's not pants, so it's all good ^.^

[stephdairy]

I'm a Tory asswipe who has written a novel, but it was a long time ago and I never had any particular ambition to get it published. Go you!

(S)

[uisgebeatha]

You're far from an asswipe! You don't get all up in my grill yelling things about how it's YOUR money and WHY should I have it because UNGRATEFUL BARBARIAN. And so you are a Tory awesome person.

I said it elsewhere, but you should totally go back and look at the novel, see if you can polish it here and there. And then do NaNoWriMo this year! I might have a proper idea for Book 2 by then! :P

[stephdairy]

Aw, shucks. That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week ;-).

The reread did accumulate a bit of a "to fix" list. Like "Don't have a bank heist on a Sunday in the 1990s" and "make the characters' ages add up". Possibly also "how did the mad revolutionaries get into this story anyway?".

(S)

[uisgebeatha]

Heh! Let's have a look at some of the notes I made as I went along, and some of the editing notes:

- We need more seals.
- 'wank off this imagery' (my editor's Word comment)
- BACK UP THE PATHOS TRUCK

Not to mention the shonky Google history including explosions, knives, descriptions of gruesome deaths and- speaking of mad revolutionaries- South American uprisings. I will either become a novelist of some repute or be NSA'd faster than you can say 'delete browsing history'...

[aristophains]

Hello. GladYouRemember here. Pleased to have discovered someone else who's stayed loyal to LiveJournal.

Well done on the novel and all the best with what's left of the road to publication. In what I hope isn't a blacklisted question, which writers would you cite as inspirations?

In what I know is a shameless question, did you ever investigate my Knightmare fanfiction? My Quantum Leap crossovers may sound perilously fanboyish in theory but they have yet to appal anyone who's actually read them. They include Mogdred casting spells in Latin and Brother Mace quoting Catullus.

[uisgebeatha]

Oh, hello! And congrats on the good Twitter-to-blog stalking skillz! Yes, I try to keep up the LJ, although I crosspost from Dreamwidth like the cool kids seem to do.

Thanks! It's going to be a long process; the book's growing bit by bit, and my editor is being ruthlessly detailed (as she ought to!).

Ooh, gosh, I should get used to probing questions methinks. Well, in terms of authors that have stuck with me, I would say CS Lewis/Pratchett for inspiring a fantasy-themed path, Willy Russell and Tony Roper for a heavy dose of Northern class consciousness, and a heap of Virgil/Homer with some Greek tragedy on the side because I'm a Classicist by training and some bits just have to be made more epic :)

(That's not counting song lyrics that give me ideas. The bulk of one character came from this album. Yeah, pretentious, moi?)

I have a sneaking suspicion you sent me the fanfic and I enjoyed it; throw me a link and I'll have a look? Anything involving Catullus is of course immediately awesome...