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Dec. 7th, 2012 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonWhew! Been awhile since I've posted here. It's been quite the busy couple of weeks here in Joncworld, between work, writing, updating, doing outside stuff, and all sorts of things. I've been treating these few weeks as playtime online, where I've been letting myself goof off and watch stupid videos on YouTube, read comics, avoid politics, and generally relax. I've downloaded new and old music, started going to 750words.com again, and thinking about what I want to do in 2013.
But I've also been putting deep focus on a lot of things too, such as the revision of A Division of Souls. I mean deep focus, trying to internally figure out exactly what I want to say with the book as well as the trilogy. It's all falling together quite nicely, actually. I figured out a few things that were on the periphery--well, more to the point, it's that I was paying attention this time to the thematic hints I'd peppered around, and can see where I start to stray and ramble off topic. That's why the first few chapters were such hell to revise but they're lightening up now. This just goes to prove that my first drafts tend to unfold like I don't have any freaking clue where the story's going, like I'm going in random directions to see what sticks. This revision is like I'm finally cleaning up those stray bits, getting rid of dead ends, strengthening the characters, and upgrading the prose. As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm also doing a bit of shuffling with the scenes to make them fit and flow better. So all in all, I like where this revision is going. We'll see how it ends up in a few months or so.
Not much else to report at the moment...I've got some Next Year Planning milling about in my head, which I'll probably post about later on this month. There's also the end-of-year music lists and compilations, of course. Can't pass those up!
Hope everyone has a spiffy weekend!
But I've also been putting deep focus on a lot of things too, such as the revision of A Division of Souls. I mean deep focus, trying to internally figure out exactly what I want to say with the book as well as the trilogy. It's all falling together quite nicely, actually. I figured out a few things that were on the periphery--well, more to the point, it's that I was paying attention this time to the thematic hints I'd peppered around, and can see where I start to stray and ramble off topic. That's why the first few chapters were such hell to revise but they're lightening up now. This just goes to prove that my first drafts tend to unfold like I don't have any freaking clue where the story's going, like I'm going in random directions to see what sticks. This revision is like I'm finally cleaning up those stray bits, getting rid of dead ends, strengthening the characters, and upgrading the prose. As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm also doing a bit of shuffling with the scenes to make them fit and flow better. So all in all, I like where this revision is going. We'll see how it ends up in a few months or so.
Not much else to report at the moment...I've got some Next Year Planning milling about in my head, which I'll probably post about later on this month. There's also the end-of-year music lists and compilations, of course. Can't pass those up!
Hope everyone has a spiffy weekend!
