Drunken Owls and Other Delights

I just finished another runthrough of Chatper 1 of Love Like Blood. That should not have taken that long!!

As it stands: 36 pages, 10433 words. Kind of long and most likely will be cut into two chapters, but the scene has been set and it reads a HELL of a lot better than when dancinghorse and emmalyon last looked at it. I'm not sure, but I think the ending could use a little more polishing, but other than that it looks good.

One down, nineteen more to go.

*sigh* The work of a writer never seems to end... ;)

I am still working on Chapter 1 of Love Like Blood. I wish I was a bit further on, but Ken Burns' documentary The War, which has been playing on PBS all this week and continues next week, is distracting me. I'm not whining, though...the doc itself has me thinking about various things about the IWN. And besides, it's not often that I go out of my way to watch stuff on TV!

Anyway, I should say that I find it quite interesting just how much filling-in of stuff is being done. Perhaps delaying the rewrite was a good thing, as I feel sufficiently detached from the novel that instead of just seeing the story itself or its major faults, I'm simply going to the spots that need fixing and it's working a lot better. And Mo's suggestion of changing tense from present to past is opening up all sorts of avenues I hadn't thought of. w000t!

I will say I will most likely not be doing much work this evening, as 7pm brings the repeat of the Journeyman pilot, followed by another episode of The War. I'll keep the text open, though, on the offchance that inspiration strikes. ;)


EDIT: No doc on tonight! Which means two things--I can get some work done, and I can catch up on bedtime reading too! I WIN! :p Oh, and also, thumbs up on Journeyman--my Snooty-Mister-Continuity-Geek side found very few geographic errors, and the story was quite enjoyable!