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I have written 9.8K words n the cheat outline since September 10: which is respectable for this stage, I think, especially considering that I have been advancing my bagatelle stories at the same time (I hope to conclude the 2 current bagatelles before November 1st. I think there's something wrong with me, that I'm writing a light-romance novella about a person who has had erectile dysfunction his entire adult life, and the other one involves a threesome which pivots on one of the characters having ridiculously low self-esteem -- oh, that one is supposed to be a romantic comedy -- no wonder nobody ever believes me when I say that about my writing).
I was just looking at the bookshelves last night and I noticed that I seem to have succeeded in giving the nice fellow's military history books away. I thought they were still up there collecting dust. That means I'm going to have to struggle with finding out stuff. Anyway, I've outlined 24 chapters out of probably less than 30 depending on how the last bit sorts itself out. My experience is that as I work on a novel-length thing the chapters tend to increase a bit especially in the beginning and middle, but I've been working on this in my head for a long time and I think most of the increase will be in the second half of the book. Also, I noticed that I've been using a lot less flashback material in the later parts of the book and I am not sure that is a good thing for my sense of the rhythm and tone of the book, so when I go over the outline again in a week or two I will have to evaluate that.
I continue to accumulate highlighted questions for research at an accelerating pace.
Favorite highlighted questions so far:
*Look up army organization. Choose silliest for Empire
*What citified knowledge? Probably political
*Figure out dashing young officer
*Mutualism in Plants
*Military telegraphy
*Prisoner exchange
*Ethnic cleansing as described by LanguageHat
*Ponies
There's apparently another weird little Polish horse, the Konik, which I thought was its own (sub)species but it turns out all horses belong to equus ferus caballus. Isn't it at least a little bit dd that a domestic animal has as part of its name the word for "wild?"
I do not have time to gush about the upturn my career has taken, or why it doesn't matter that it won't increase my earnings, or the very exciting event the day before yesterday where I got to watch a kid conquer crawling in the course of the day, step by step. Later, maybe.
I was just looking at the bookshelves last night and I noticed that I seem to have succeeded in giving the nice fellow's military history books away. I thought they were still up there collecting dust. That means I'm going to have to struggle with finding out stuff. Anyway, I've outlined 24 chapters out of probably less than 30 depending on how the last bit sorts itself out. My experience is that as I work on a novel-length thing the chapters tend to increase a bit especially in the beginning and middle, but I've been working on this in my head for a long time and I think most of the increase will be in the second half of the book. Also, I noticed that I've been using a lot less flashback material in the later parts of the book and I am not sure that is a good thing for my sense of the rhythm and tone of the book, so when I go over the outline again in a week or two I will have to evaluate that.
I continue to accumulate highlighted questions for research at an accelerating pace.
Favorite highlighted questions so far:
*Look up army organization. Choose silliest for Empire
*What citified knowledge? Probably political
*Figure out dashing young officer
*Mutualism in Plants
*Military telegraphy
*Prisoner exchange
*Ethnic cleansing as described by LanguageHat
*Ponies
There's apparently another weird little Polish horse, the Konik, which I thought was its own (sub)species but it turns out all horses belong to equus ferus caballus. Isn't it at least a little bit dd that a domestic animal has as part of its name the word for "wild?"
I do not have time to gush about the upturn my career has taken, or why it doesn't matter that it won't increase my earnings, or the very exciting event the day before yesterday where I got to watch a kid conquer crawling in the course of the day, step by step. Later, maybe.
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