It's a good month to get out of the city, anyway...

Looks like my New-Book-In-August-of-Travel just got a smidge more travel-y.... (Seattle and Portland for the SFWA reading series, San Francisco for SF in SF, Atlanta for DragonCon.)

Where else should I go? I mean, as long as I've arranged for cat sitters, and I'll have this new fantasy novel to promote..... :-)


(unless you're offering to pay my way, please keep the suggestions reasonable! Yes, you. I know you.)

Day 2 of The Year-End Project

Goal: to have 50k words in polished working order by 1 January.

Day 1: got the errata, notes, and existing text imported into Scrivener.  Created a character call-sheet.
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Started working on part 1, chapter 1 this morning. Mainly, I'm reading it out loud to myself, and changing as I go until it flows properly.

Example:

this:

Placing the pencil carefully at the top of the drafting table, in the narrow niche carved for exactly that purpose, John Mason reached for the clean white rag hanging on a hook at the edge of the table, and wiped his hands, careful to rub the smudges off each finger with studied precision.

went to this:

He placed the pencil carefully in the narrow niche carved into the drafting table for exactly that purpose, then reached for a clean cloth rag and wiped his hands, careful to rub the smudges off each finger with studied precision.

Managed to get through all of chapter one today. 7,600 words (revised, not all new.)

Words of oncoming doom: "John Mason had no real desire to change the world: he was passing fond of it the way it was. "


And now I believe it is wine o'clock.  And I should probably eat a meal not-at-my-desk.