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I have had an epiphany.
Why the hell am I messing about with The Molting? It’s a ‘practice’ short story, I get that, but it’s not really what I want to write.
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Doesn’t mean that I should start revising Hurricane Forever right away, but it does mean I’ll probably spend all of August contemplating the worldbuilding I need to do for HF and my magnum opus.
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I have slain the first of the Oni.
Miss Metta’s progress is astonishing indeed.
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I have no idea how I’m going to make my deadline for Thursday. Brian_Ohio is probably going to come and kick my ass.
I am revising from the beginning again. It is both better and not better.
I did also make plans for Nadia to snatch my manuscript out of my hands come August 16th post-revisions, however, so I better get cracking. She is the Queen of Evil and she is awesomely fearsome.
On the other hand, I now have necromancers in the other world I am building. That’s maybe the only bright spot in Week #6 for me.
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Re: necromancers
I guess I am getting my other goal for July done too. Except that now I have to fix Hurricane Forever too.
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Celtic Leaves is stitching up beautifully! J
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I have fixed a key hole in my magnum opus.
I also now have Necromancers of my very own. I think. I hope. Things could still change. Not sure how I can integrate the necromancers in.
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The Molting…is revolting.
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Kaz’s Summer’s Camp Week #5:
I’m still stuck.
It’s like I’ve suddenly lost all inspiration to work on my short story – I think it may well have returned to being a short story because I fixed the middle.
The truth is, I don’t need to write this short story any more, and that’s maybe a big part of the problem. I’m writing it to test-run a few things for my magnum opus. It’s tested, and found wanting because it is a highly imperfect proxy for my magnum opus. I need another test story but I don’t have one at the moment.
The other thing is that it is also a rather open-ended tale. I don’t know how to deal with that yet. I thought I did, but I don’t. And since I still have more than a week…
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In other news, Emily has a job. Or rather, Emily still has a job.
