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Re: The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
« Reply #435 on: July 29, 2013, 03:30:43 AM »
No word counts or pages written to brag about, just to vent about the tedium of editing my first book.

I hate editing.  I hate even more finding the stupid mistakes . . . missing words, duplicate words, punctuation, spelling errors. 

Boring, boring, boring.
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Re: The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
« Reply #436 on: July 29, 2013, 03:57:39 AM »
21k - Admiral's Revenge (7k over the weekend)

Also went through an editing pass on the Falon novella and novel, fixed the ending and wove in a few more threads!  Couple thousand more words on that.



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« Reply #437 on: July 29, 2013, 02:18:16 PM »
The wife and kids were out of town this weekend for a camping trip with her parents, so I got to stay home and punch out a few chapters of my second book. It was tough to start but I think I hit a good rhythm now.

On another note - I discovered a book coming out next spring sounds an awful lot like my next project. It's dystopian and mine is epic fantasy, but there were enough similarities that it made me look twice. It kind of sucks, but then again, the book isn't out yet, so I have no idea how similar the two would be. At least by self-publishing, I can still write mine and get it out there.
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« Reply #438 on: July 29, 2013, 02:27:40 PM »
I wouldn't worry too much about writing something that's similar to another book. It happens. There are a finite number of plotlines. What matters is how you tell the story.

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« Reply #439 on: August 01, 2013, 08:51:10 AM »
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« Reply #440 on: August 02, 2013, 09:25:48 AM »
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Re: The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
« Reply #441 on: August 03, 2013, 04:16:33 AM »
tightened newish first two chapters of #1 and most recent chapter of #3, then got distracted into reading #2 all the way through again.
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« Reply #442 on: August 04, 2013, 08:28:41 AM »
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« Reply #443 on: August 06, 2013, 07:25:38 AM »
Another 1k or there abouts on an epilogue for the Falon prequel.  My brother wrote it but I revised and extended another k on top of it.  Then he also came up with another pair of product descriptions.  Normally I help fix'er up but this time they came out just about perfect.  One logic flaw on the second one.  And a couple lines I thought could be added to the first.

Fingers crossed:  In a couple hours hopefully we'll have the prequel and book one up for amazon review!



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« Reply #444 on: August 07, 2013, 03:52:17 AM »
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« Reply #445 on: August 07, 2013, 06:06:56 AM »
Last night I sent the query for my third book off to my publisher.

Now to wait and see what they say...

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« Reply #446 on: August 07, 2013, 10:28:26 AM »
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The Boar Knife and The Blooding are both out and my first 5 star review is already up on The Boar Knife!  Hopefully they like the novel just as well.

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« Reply #447 on: August 09, 2013, 05:19:10 PM »
So, after some thought, I've decided to shop out my first book to agents. I realize  since I've already self-published it that there's a better chance of being rejected, but I figure why not? You only live once right? If the book is rejected then it stays as is and I self-publish the next book.
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« Reply #448 on: August 10, 2013, 04:53:27 AM »
So, after some thought, I've decided to shop out my first book to agents. I realize  since I've already self-published it that there's a better chance of being rejected, but I figure why not? You only live once right? If the book is rejected then it stays as is and I self-publish the next book.

I know the guy who wrote terms of enlistment got picked up by a publisher.  That's why we have to wait a year for the new sequel.



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« Reply #449 on: August 10, 2013, 05:08:32 PM »
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