Graphic by Peg Ihinger
And it’s another open-mike day! Talk among yourselves, ask questions, update everyone on what’s going on in your life or with your WIP.
I’m fleshing out maps and background timelines for my two possible WIPs (still haven’t decided on which to do yet, but I’m leaning toward the complicated non-sequel).
And the Facebook page hack still hasn’t been solved…
I have finally capitulated and acknowledged I’m writing a series which happens to have two side novels instead of two novels and this one book on the side (the offending, actually I’m a series one).
Sadly, I’m also kinda writing it all in a lump since I write out of order and the events in each affect each other heavily.
Thousands of words but no finished book yet.
Going back and filling in all the diplomatic sessions. I was right that if I actually got some names and characterizations for the diplomats, I could find more interest in the topic; and it’s helping the too-compressed pacing.
I also wrote a scene that would go near the end, where the most troublesome of the diplomats talks about her fears for the future. Not sure it goes in; it kind of ends with a fizzle at the moment. Does give me a little more sympathy for her, though, and that’s probably enough reason to have written it.
I need to get off my duff and resubmit book 1. Though I also have to go back and rewrite the space scenes, as during the process of writing book 2 I reluctantly decided the humans don’t have antigravity. Fortunately book 1’s space scenes are minimal. Ugh, except for the taking of the protagonist’s ship. I now know that swarm ships don’t grapple the victim, they fire pods at it instead, because the target ship may be rotating and grappling a rotating ship is not a great idea, especially if you want to capture the crew. Okay, heavy rewrite there. It’ll be better for it, I hope. (My husband keeps saying, does this story need accurate gravity? But I think it does.)