As for the acknowledgements and dedication, they ask earlier on if I would like a couple of pages saved for them. I tend to say yes, even when I’m not sure who I might acknowledge or who or what I might dedicate the book to (and also be in danger of repeating myself) because I suspect they are a case of ‘use them or lose them’. I also feel that just going nah, I won’t bother, is a bit lazy.
So, Penny Royal is on 32,741 words and I’ll soon be abandoning it for a while to turn my attention to this editing. When I return to Penny Royal I’ll have to deal with a growing feeling of ‘time to introduce another character or twist’ – time in fact to do what Raymond Chandler did when he felt things needed ramping up. His approach was to walk in a man with a gun. My approach has structural similarities to that but might be ‘time to bring in a massive brass android with a penchant for ripping off people’s heads’ or ‘time to bring in the ancient and thoroughly unpleasant Golgoloth’.
It’s something I’ll have to ponder.
7 comments:
Yay! You can never have enough huge brass androids ripping off heads...
I am partial to the odd psychopathic android, but the sheer amoral evilness of the Golgoloth takes some beating. Anything that is used as a bogeyman to scare juvenile Prador has to be good!
Every book should have a huge brass android!
Why not dedicate the book to your blog readers ;-)
if he does that we may be rounded up for questioning.
Crane Nuff said.
Thanks for the commnets. And thanks for yours, Packrat54. I actually giggled.
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