My cyberpunk retelling of "The Seven Swans" is on its way towards the climax, so I'm hoping to finish it this week. It has turned out to be a rather long story, but in contemplating it, I've realized that I really had to tell two (and a half) stories: the main plot, then the love story to establish her relationship with the "king" ... and finally, interactions with her brothers to show how she feels about them. Not a full story, but a narrative thread. I felt I needed to flesh both these out for the emotional component of the story.
Not so sure about finishing my novel by the Valentine's Day deadline. I've just finished the competition portion of the second-to-last episode, and I could probably do it, but that would mean writing nothing else for the next two and a half weeks ... and I've got a short story to finish, the FWO February challenge to contemplate, a couple of free writes I want to make because they're good for my writer-brain, and a 2k story challenge I've committed myself to.
I still have no idea what's going to happen in the last episode, but I finally had a brainstorm that helped me worked out the problem I had with the romantic subplot. Totally not a direction I had anticipated going initially ...
When I finally do edit this novel, I'm going to have to break down the episodes both organically and mechanically, and see how the actual size versus the flow and pacing work together.
Word count for 1/20 - 1/26: 11,669
About Me
- Lindsey Duncan
- I'm a professional harp performer, chef / pastry chef, and speculative fiction writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. My contemporary fantasy novel Flow is available from Double Dragon Publishing, and my science fiction novel Scylla and Charybdis is now out from Grimbold Books. I've also sold a number of short stories and a few pieces of speculative poetry. I write predominantly fantasy, usually epic and/or humorous, with some soft science fiction. I play the traditional lever harp with a specialty in Celtic music - but I also perform modern and Renaissance tunes. And yes, you read that right - I have a diploma in Baking and Pastry and an Associates in Culinary Arts and am currently working in the catering field at Kate's Catering and Personal Chef Services (Dayton, KY). I am a CPC (Certified Pastry Culinarian) and CSW (Certified Specialist of Wine).
2 comments:
I like the new picture. Good luck with finishing all your projects. Don't be too hard on yourself if you don't make your deadline. Just look at how much you have accomplished.
Thanks :-)
I kind of have this philosophy of never letting my goals getting in the way of things I want to do ... which sounds terrible, but I've been lucky enough to have a balance of discipline and self-awareness to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, as it were.
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