Quick update. There’ll be more later today of more general interest.
I just finished the rewrite on Chapter five and am a little over a third of the way through now, just reaching the areas of the story where genuine, full on heavy lifting is required. It gets a little bit tricky from here on in.
So far, I’ve developed the early part of the book enough to raise the word count by a few thousand but not, interestingly, as much as I thought. So where are we you ask?
Ok, you didn’t ask.
Anya and The Woodsman are both “on camera”, our villain(s) have made a couple of appearances and the Tream have been hawling their bare green arses across a few scenes as well. After the light and fluffy opening (yes I’m being sarcastic) we’re now fixed to get really dark.
Should be fun.
“Ok, you didn’t ask.”
I’m asking.
😉
So, what is this Woodsman of which you speak?
Brian
Thanks for stopping by Brian.
The Woodsman is the working title of the novel I am currently working on. It’s currently on its third and final draft. I’ve been charting my progress on the redraft via occasional updates. If you click on The Woodsman tag you should be able to see the archive.
The first one thousand words can be read in the Friday Flash Fiction archive.
And once finished I will chart its progress down whatever route I eventually decide to take in getting it in front of some readers (publisher, creative commons, etc).
The Woodsman’s name is Vedic.
For some reason, the only “Woodsman” that kept creaping into my mind was the movie by that title starring Kevin Bacon. Sorry . . .
Sounds like an ambitious undertaking. What’s it like to have written a novel? I imagine it feels pretty good . . .
Brian
Lol. I hadn’t actually thought that through. It’s a working title so possibly a rethink is in order.
It’s not finished yet but writing it – or in this case rewriting portions of it – is a lot of fun. Novel length is the stuff I enjoy the most because you can bring everything to the mix and that’s a challenge all by itself.
How long did the draft take you to write?
The first draft was started in September 2006 and finished in January 2007. The second draft took a month as it was pretty much just a line edit and done from June through to July of last year.
I’m trying to stick to a two year limit for this as if you spend too much time on one project trying to retro-fit it into all the new stuff you learned in the interim you’ll never get write anything else.
And there are some other stories I really want to write. Regardless of where this one eventually ends up.
I can understand that. You can only polish so much before you open the writing-room door and let the kid out to play.