Our latest novel has frankly take far longer than it should have. There were a lot of distractions over the summer and fall. Necessary stuff to be sure but it slowed things down, sometimes to a crawl. Then just as I thought things were wrapping up I realized I was in the wrong ‘voice.’ The book had been written from the first-person perspective of three characters and they just couldn’t tell the whole story. There was nothing for it but to go back to the beginning and re-write it in third-person. That took a month all by itself.
The book is finished in it’s ‘raw’ form and it’s time for rewrites and pre-editing. Linda and I are going to be very busy for the next week…
Now it’s time to start thinking about moving on; to shift gears from the near-future of our own world back to the ‘Rifleman’s World.’ Engvyr and his friends have had a nice little vacation but it’s time for them to get busy. Linda has already restarted work on ‘Lord of the North,’ the sequel to ‘Diaries of a Dwarven Rifleman,’ and I’ll be joining her in that effort in between polishing up ‘Rage of Angels.’
Being a writer is problematic on so many levels. Right now I’ve got the details of two sequels buzzing around in my head and somewhere out there The Gray Man is lurking around the fringes of my consciousness as well. The goal for this year is to finish RoA and LotN and one other novel, probably the Gray Man Journals; he’s been waiting in the wings for a long time, and he really deserves to emerge and see the light of day…
In the meantime my reading list is backing up. Paradoxically becoming a writer has really messed up my reading- when is there time for it? If you figure it out let me know.