So I went through and edited chapters 28-33 this weekend, re-jigged the ending a bit, got it closer to final. It would do now, but no doubt could be improved. I went back and forth through the last three chapters looking for places to possibly insert a line or two, and ended up not doing …
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The Slaves and The Djinn: Final edit-as-I-go draft update?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I write this before I have finished my writing for these days off, with Chapters 31 and 32 written, so I am 96.96 recurring% of the way to completion of this edited-as-I-go draft. Cheers Ernest! Still no graphic representation. Except I have not really edited from 29 on, …
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Seven weeks in a row: truncated activity and a difficult finish line
Hello friends and the occasional relative! This has been a disjointed weekend, and as expected, I only managed one chapter, that looked easier on paper than the last couple, but turned out to have a lot of challenges. The surprises of writing. Three chapters to go! So I am now 90.9% of the way to …
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Weekly update: knowing you don’t have perspective, and being okay with it
Hello, friends and the occasional relative! Six weeks in a row. The streak will be busted sooner or later, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. This has been a good weekend. I wrote not one, not two, but three chapters! 87.87% of the way through this edited-as-I-go draft. Still no progress bar. I am …
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Progress on The Slaves and The Djinn
Hello, my friends and occasional relative! Yes, that is still the title. It remains the pithiest that fits within the format I set myself with The Thief and The Demon. I can’t lie—I will enjoy writing books without The X and The Y as a title convention! But hey, I am feeling mostly better, and …
Work In Progress Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative. Unbelievably, I am sick again. Kicked in yesterday, and now I have a hot head full of cotton wool, where thoughts sluggishly drift and dissipate. It is a huge pain in my backside, but for today, medicated up to my eyeballs to manage symptoms as best I can, I …
World Belt Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative! (yes, I may use this as a tag line from now on). I have been asked to give you all an update on my progress in the wonderful, if grim, World Belt. The Slaves and The Djinn (a slightly more upbeat title than The Killer and The Dead I …
SPFBO Cohort Vague Review #5
Yes, I'm still doing this. 24 to go, bitches. Then I'll read my own book last, and declare, without any hint of bias, that it was clearly the best. You know, because. Well that took a long time. No knock on the quality of the book, I’ve just withered as a reader, and now find …
A Second Rant About Writing and AI
Hello my friends and occasional relative. I submit a new rant, which, upon reflection, I possibly should have written in meter. But I didn't, because how easy would it be to train an AI tool to do that? Ahem. Tap tap tap. In my last outing I went straight to the end of the road, …
A Typically Ill-informed Rant about AI and Writing
This is much longer than my usual entries. My apologies: I got the bit between my teeth and went galloping off hither and yon. A few months ago, I read an article talking about the use of AI in art, and it made me wonder about a future when AI would start to invade writing’s …
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