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I have officially killed my short story. I'm working on rousing political speeches for the characters. I'm supposed to be working on a synopsis for something or other next month but I haven't a clue what. Maybe I should have put more thought into goals...
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I have slain my second oni, and started working on a third. Miss Metta is going down!
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Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #7:
Still NOT done.
Gah. This is going to be the short story that will haunt me for the rest of my writerly life.
And if I’m not done on July 31st, I think I’m going to junk this.
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I’m pretty sure I’m coming down with something.
Apparently, a stitch a day doesn’t keep the doctor away.
But Miss Metta is lovely, thank you very much.
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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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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.
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I have cut some more.
I must stop letting my ideas get in the way of my narrative.* I let this happen too often and it wastes too much time that I could otherwise spend actually writing.
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Yesterday, I ambitiously told 
Now I actually have to do it.
Incidentally, he wrote a hilarious account of how Kaz’s Summer Camp is going, and you can read it here. It comes with Pictures!
* Courtesy of a David Mitchell interview I read today.
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Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #4:
My short story has rapidly expanded to novella length. This will be the first of my many goal revisions. Sigh.
I wrote 3791 words. It would have been 4k, but I junked the last scene because it was not taking me anywhere.
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Haven’t written today. Junked that scene. Must do better tomorrow.
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Finished cousin’s wedding sampler. One down, and one more to go.
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Kaz’s Summer Camp Week #3:
I finished my draft zero of Hurricane Forever – not the real title FYI – yesterday.
It is an awful draft. I’m so desperate to fix it that I sent it to two kind souls – Maili and Liz – who can store a copy so I can temporarily delete it off my hard drive. If they decide to peek, it’ll probably make their eyes bleed.
Hmm… Not sure if it’s a good idea to let people have blackmail material. But it is done.
Today, I started the short story, The Molting, that I was planning to write next month. I’m now hoping to finish it by 2nd of July, as there’ll be wedding madness (thankfully not mine) from 3rd-11th of June, entailing flights and gowns and stuff.
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Extract:
“You are very difficult, you know.”
“Coming from you? Who hired me to manage you so other people would find you easier to deal with?”
His mouth dropped open. “What did you just say?”
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I already had a draft of the first section – so I’m now just revising what I had as I go along. That’s about 1300 words of revisions, and I’m about ready to take the leap into new material.
I only have new material because I had an epiphany this morning. But I’m pretty sure it can carry me through to the end in one draft, so that’s okay.
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I talked to Elise Matthesen, who has kindly given me permission to use some of her beautiful work in The Molting.
I had an epiphany about it. It entails tossing out all the worldbuilding I did for it, but that’s okay.
I suspect it’s not quite fantasy any more though. Or SF, which might be an issue as I was going to use to ‘audition’ OWW.
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This is my first post at Posterous.
If this works, it should show up at Blogger too.
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My update for Kaz’s Summer Camp, Week #2:
I edited about 6k in from a previous draft and wrote about 3700 words too. I'm a lot closer to the end then I thought I was. Tonight's the big move. Eek.
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Yes, I am leaving Life in the Cold and the Wet behind.
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A snippet in honor of above:
She sat up, reached over, and hit him. Hard.
“What do you want?” he growled into the pillow.
“Sex. Conversation. The naked man next to me transforming back into my doting husband. Just to name a few things.”
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This is my first post at Posterous.
If this works, it should show up at Blogger too.
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My update for Kaz’s Summer Camp, Week #2:
I edited about 6k in from a previous draft and wrote about 3700 words too. I'm a lot closer to the end then I thought I was. Tonight's the big move. Eek.
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Yes, I am leaving Life in the Cold and the Wet behind.
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A snippet in honor of above:
She sat up, reached over, and hit him. Hard.
“What do you want?” he growled into the pillow.
“Sex. Conversation. The naked man next to me transforming back into my doting husband. Just to name a few things.”
The older man’s face flushed, in renewed anger. “I won’t be your pawn.”3.
“You already are, and if you do not act, you will only remain a pawn.”
At some point, I need to start my Sooper Sekrit Projekt with Nadia Lee. We are sacrificing blood, sweat and time, in order to achieve World Domination. Stay tuned.You can sign up until June 8th.
June:
Finish Hurricane Forever. About another 20-30k.
July:
Ignore Hurricane Forever.Pretty sure this will be the most difficult one, but this is the most important goal for July. If I don't complete the others, I guess I'll have had my first real writing vacation in I-don't-know-when.Write a short story, maybe 10k.
Fiddle with my would-be magnum opus.
August:
Write a synopsis for something. I don't care what, so long it's not Hurricane Forever or my would-be magnum opus. I just want to have something for my underbrain to chew over whilst I revise Hurricane Forever.
