Last night I wrote another couple of thousand words on my new story / book “Tattered Remnants”. I’ve been keeping it all in one big Word file. The formatting of some chapters followed one “model” and others were different, and it was getting confusing, snarled, and difficult to concentrate on. I decided to try and fix it.

Before I went to bed, I broke the book off into 9 short chapters. It’s just under 12,000 words. I’m not usually a short chapter kind of guy, but this one has a mind of its own. On the the other hand, the last chapter sort of stretched out. It may be that the book is drawing me further into the story. I will try to keep at least most of the chapters short to match what has come before, but I’ll be more comfortable around 200-4000 word chapters.

Next I’m going to do a rough outline. I need to get through this and finish it - I have two collaborative projects to get through, and a Stargate Atlantis novel imminent, and I’m still enmeshed in a very intriguing ghost-writing project. There are not enough hours left in the day after a full-time job for so much writing - but currently there’s not enough money behind the words to allow me to write full time. May never be - only time can tell on that.

Will be putting another round of auctions on eBay shortly.

Now, off to work on that outline (and more of Redneck Dragon)

-DNW

Posted on 09/4/08, 4:07 AM
in: writing
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