I hate cutting out cool characters who it turns out you just don’t need for the book. One of my walk on characters from GW got a fairly lengthy scene in BD in a chapter that, well, doesn’t really need her so much anymore (she doesn’t show up later in the book, so doing a […]
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I seemed to have some confusion about whether or not Nyx’s kid clerk was a Ras Tiegan refugee, a half breed orphan, or a full blooded Nasheenian from the coast whose mother was a career breeder. All of these conflicting historical details appeared within the same 12-page spread.
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In order to help me with some of my lazy city and dwelling descriptions in the fictional country of Tirhan (capital, Shirhazi), I’ve been browsing photos of the real (city of) Teheran today, and this is all I have to say about that: I’d do just about anything to live in Teheran for a year.
A very long and bloated draft, but a fucking draft nonetheless. I think I may actually be missing half an Inaya chapter somewhere, but I’m too tired to look. I’ll save that for the rewrite. And now I get to turn off The Noose, which has been on repeat for the last 40 minutes. P.S.
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And that, my friends, is what happens when Nyx finally shows back up. Damn, that was rough going for awhile. I’m thinking it may end up running a tad long. Will print out what I’ve got tomorrow, but I think I’m through the worst of it.
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The problem is, the book stops when Nyx is out of commission. These people can’t slap their asses with both hands without her. Or, rather, there doesn’t appear to be any narrative without her. Once I push past this part, it’s smooth sailing (which is why I skipped ahead and wrote those parts already), but
This book doesn’t have enough fight scenes.
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That was a bloody hard-fought thousand words, man. The problem with getting to the end of this book is, I’ve already written all of the big fun scenes, and now my entire word count consists of all the boring but necessary transition scenes and touchups where I’m stringing them all together. It’s like swimming through
I cut a bunch yesterday, so this is about another 2k. I fucking hate this book. Must mean it’s almost fucking done.
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