This Was a F---load of Work

This took a really long time.

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And there are some Book 12 spoilers Easter Egged Among the new Entries.

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What I've been up to lately.

1. Well, I took a break in November to write a novel in a completely different genre. 75,130 words about football and religion. Yup, that was kind of a waste of time.
   
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1. Preparing books five and six for e-book format. (Books 1-4, already available) In addition to fixing typos and retconning, discovered a Supermassive plot hole in Book 05 that will be plugged in the e-book version. 
2. Decided that structuring a key chapter of Book 12 around tentacle Hentai just won't work. 
3. Have the back stories of all twelve of the original colonies on the wikia page.
   http://worldsapart.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Worlds

OK, back to work I go. (Yeah, Blogger fudged up the numbering. Not my fault. 

I Just Wrote

"Does it ever bother you that you work for an insane trillionaire who wants to become an immortal worm-woman?"

It will make sense in context.

Book 12 Update

Writing is at one of those slow points. I have tried to force myself to put out words, but they form into sentences that lack wit and verve. And I don't have enough written to justify rewriting yet. Outlined Chapter 23 as the last Chapter. Now I have to figure out how to get there from Chapter 05, which is the last chapter actually drafted out. Chapter 6 is a problem because it's supposed to be very action-packed and I know how I want it to end, but I don't know how to get it there.

Also, I ran into a problem in that late in the book, a specific character has to do a specific action; the entire plot hinges on it. If I kill off a certain other character whom this pivotal character is very attached to (OK, I'm talking about Trajan Lear and Matt Driver, I don't think that's a spoiler) it makes his action easily understandable from a motivational standpoint. On the other hand, I have had a joke in mind since way back  about the time I was writing Book 04 that requires that this other character be alive. So, do I want an emotional rationale that will make a certain pivotal action understandable even though it is out-of-character, or do I want to go for the joke.

Yeah, I'll go for the joke. What else would I do?

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Working

Book 12 is coming along slowly. I am challenging myself to make it good, and just pack it with jam, but I'm hitting a wall on making it live up to my standard.

In the meantime, I am preparing the previous books for conversion to e-book formats. I am think of using Booktango. I am going through them and doing some editing. Book 02 was such a mess I've done some substantial edits and a little bit of retconning. Book 04 seems to be in pretty good shape.

Dumb Idea For My Weekend

It occurs to me that I have more than the usual amount of toys to play with in Book 12. Would it be fun (and also a lazy way of establishing character) if I made the captains of some of the other ships parodies of starship captains from other genres? Captaing Hepburn? Captain Juniper? Captain Bowman? Captain Fishhead? Captain Duo (or Duet)?

I have to think on this. And speaking of bad ideas for the weekend...

Got the Groove Back

I was beginning to think I had writer's block because I just couldn't get 12 moving. But the dam seems to have broken. Chapter 01 is basically written. It isn't that funny, but it is written. Chapter 02 is kind of a problem child, but 03 seems to be working itself out. And I got some ideas of how to bring teh funneh. I had already planned a Halo/C3PO parody. (Imagine if 343 Guilty Spark were as flaming as C-3PO. That's what I'm talking about.) And I am playing with the idea of a Dr. Who parody figure tentatively called Dr.Whatever. (Because there is some ... kind of sort of but not really... time travel in Book 12 as I have it planned out.

Also, I had been thinking David Alkema would get into a romantic relationship with Reena Decker from Book 11. But I have introduced in Book 12 a character of Honoria Keeler, who is the great-great-great-great grand niece of Bill Keeler and they seem to be hitting it off pretty well. So, we'll see what happens.

Spoiler Beyond the break.