Thursday Notes: #19
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Lots of signups this week, yay! Feel free to forward this newsletter around to all your friends and encourage them to sign up too. Or even perfect strangers. Or imperfect strangers. I’m not picky. 🙂
Since I last wrote you, we did have our Christmas-tree-decorating party, and it went really well. Our tree looks very pretty…
…even if some of our ornaments are not exactly entirely traditional.
But the big news of this week is that I have–yes!–finally actually started working on A Sword in The Sun, the sequel to The Queen and The Tower. And by “working”, I mean I opened up the computer file; found the other, older computer file and added that one to it; found the many folders full of paper and notes, and pulled them out and spread them on my desk; and then rushed off to write a newsletter because all this material is, frankly, kind of daunting.
There is good news and–well, there’s not really any bad news, there’s just “I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me” news. The good news is that this one combined computer file alone is nearly 46,000 words long. Halfway there! Hahaha, no. That’s the “other news” part: I know that all of these words need heavy editing and rewriting, and I’m guessing that at least a quarter of them just don’t belong at all. Either I already cannibalized them for book one, or they no longer fit where the story is going, or they’re overwritten, or…
So it’s all good news, really: that means when I’ve gone through all this, trimming and editing and sorting, I’ll have plenty of room to figure out the REAL plot of this book, plus a good running start! Yes. That’s right. That’s what this all means. Yup.
Oh wait–there’s actually even BIGGER news this week; Mark’s news, not mine. In his words:
After years of being asked how to get these color-cycling animated landscapes onto mobile devices to watch all the time, Ian Gilman, in his online guise as Pixfabrik.com, is FINALLY going to grant that wish! This will be the first time since Seize The Day died in the ’90s’ that people can see these scenes with ALL their original buzzers, bells, and elective components up and working! See these scenes as you have never seen them on-line anywhere in the past 20 years. :] Launches on January 1st.
The link is here, to see the first pretty picture, or even sign up for Ian’s mailing list to be notified of more developments. You know, since you’re already in a mailing-list frame of mind.
All right, I’d better get back to those 46,000 words. Stay warm and don’t forget to eat more cookies!