I’ve finally turned it around. The latest book, written
intermittently over the last couple of years, was a mess. I’ve said before how
I just let myself go with the writing following plot threads that led off into
the wilderness and then, on numerous occasions, tore the whole thing apart and
put it back together again. This time I’ve again torn it apart, rewritten it
and stuck it back together again. And it’s working.
I am now 9 chapters in and can get back to writing new stuff.
I did my 2,000 words yesterday but am not yet contemplating going back to doing
that five days a week. I don’t want to push too hard and find myself bouncing
out again, which has happened before. Anyway, I have some other writing-related
work to get on with and I have a life to rebuild beyond slaving at a word
processor for you lot!
But on the subject of the new book, I can’t leave this post
without a few obligatory teases. I decided to make the character who delivered
something nasty to a weapons platform – one of many around a particular
accretion disc – an expendable character who does not appear in the rest of the
book. An entity I have dubbed ‘the wheel’ might be a Jain AI. I don’t know – I just
write this stuff as it comes to me. Anyway, it certainly shows a great deal of
interest in a Jain super-soldier. And Orlandine … why is she building two war
runcibles?
Heh.
