Monday, October 4, 2010

Hammering Pistons In The Headspace

I am so close to the finish on The Last Captain, but I have had so many plots running along different tangents for so long that I keep going, "Fuck, what about that?!" Which leads to more scribbling as I rally the troops and wrangle the story into shape.

It feels good though, to be over the hump and have the pistons of story hammering along in my headspace.  I spent five hours yesterday just writing, and I still have shit to say on The Last Captain, which is refreshing.  Usually I am so burnt I don't want to look at it.

In this I've been greatly assisted by Scrivener, the program I bought recently.  I know it will more fully shine in the revision phase, but it has sure been handy already.  I am terribly, terribly excited about that second draft and revising it.

So, back to it.

Oh, and I finally tracked the DA down and he promised me my transcript for the upcoming trial.  He'd best do as he promised, or I will sick this family on him:

4 comments:

  1. Is that five hours straight? Or five ours punctuated with twitter, blogging, email, coffee and jerking off? LOL (sorry, couldn't resist adding that last bit)
    E

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  2. Nope, straight up writing.

    Ok, there was a bit of twittage, but only when I need to think on something else for a moment to allow my subconscious to work something out.

    I do not drink coffee.

    I am not popular enough to get many emails.

    And I tend to rub one out to sleep, as it tends not to focus my mind, but relax it.

    And it's good to hear from you, Evil E.

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  3. Well now that you've revealed all of your dirty little secrets, what are you writing?
    Good thing I have the attention of a samurai warrior...oh, look, someone tweeted me! LOL
    Evil E

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  4. I little bit of SF called The Last Captain. Check down at the bottom for all the subjects, and click on The Last Captain. It should bring up the 19-odd posts related to it, some of which are actual excerpts.

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