MEDUSA: A Tale of Vengeance, etc.
Mar. 20th, 2013 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zzambrosius_02Today I got back to writing. Only 815 words, according to Word, but it completed a chapter and advanced the leading edge to the end of the next chapter. It is sitting at page 236 now. I am not sure how much more I will have to write in order to properly tell this story, nor how much I will have to cut, or be able to cut. It’s a lot of work, and takes a lot of words, to follow an entire poly household closely, with attention to their emotional lives. Not to mention some pretty momentous events.
One trick is balancing stuff. So, for instance, I find strategy and tactics fascinating, but I realize there are people who skip right over the ‘standing around the map discussing the next battle’ scenes. But sometimes there are things happening there that bear on the emotions of the lead characters, or show forth their inner thoughts.
BTW, thanks to the Great Avery, I now have a new machine to write on: a G5, apparently from 2009. I know, that’s so last decade... but it was free, and is a huge step up from this Pismo. I think I’m going to like it... (The G5 came without a wireless card, so until that is installed the online world is still accessible only via Pismo.)
Anyway, for that small but rabid group who have read LEONTARI and VIASMAE and are eagerly awaiting the next chapter, there is hope. MEDUSA is shaping up to be a doorstop, an epic, a saga! OK, a long book anyway. Sto Kalo.
One trick is balancing stuff. So, for instance, I find strategy and tactics fascinating, but I realize there are people who skip right over the ‘standing around the map discussing the next battle’ scenes. But sometimes there are things happening there that bear on the emotions of the lead characters, or show forth their inner thoughts.
BTW, thanks to the Great Avery, I now have a new machine to write on: a G5, apparently from 2009. I know, that’s so last decade... but it was free, and is a huge step up from this Pismo. I think I’m going to like it... (The G5 came without a wireless card, so until that is installed the online world is still accessible only via Pismo.)
Anyway, for that small but rabid group who have read LEONTARI and VIASMAE and are eagerly awaiting the next chapter, there is hope. MEDUSA is shaping up to be a doorstop, an epic, a saga! OK, a long book anyway. Sto Kalo.
