I started working on Gun vs. Sword (temporary title, until I think of something better) this week. It’s a novel that I’ve been doing pre-writing for while Merm-8 is incubating and editing Z Company. I never intended it to be a main novel, and I plan to stop this and restart Merm-8 after it’s gotten its critiques back. It’s a trunk novel, but the idea’s been in my head for years, since I read “The Darkness and the Light”, and I’ve been gradually touching it every time I get ideas. Now I’m done with the pre-writing, so writing the text is obviously the next step. Of course, that’s not as easy as…
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Now What?
I was going to make an entry on Friday, but work has been sooo busy. I had to stay up til 12:30 on Sunday to debug and deploy an application going up in the morning. Customers suck. But the reason I was going to make an entry was to declare that I was done with the outline for Mermaid Story for now. My only concerns are that the beginning is too slow, the ending isn’t paced well-enough, and that the romance isn’t there. Of course, these are things you can’t tell in an outline – there has to be a tangible form and feedback to be able to make that…