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Writing Update

August 14, 2012July 17, 2012 by Chris Andrews

Well, its about time I kept myself honest and posted about my writing ‘exploits’.

Angry Robot still has the submission I sent for the same novel. They’ve had it for over two and a half months now. Their website said to expect a wait of about three months, and possibly more depending on the number of submissions they received. It’s probably a good thing its taking a while – it’s given me time to tinker with it. Still, if they ask for it, I’ll send it in a heartbeat.

Other news includes work with the novel critique group – wer’re down to the last two novels. I’ve also written a new short story (yeah, pretty rare for me), and a new introduction for the mermaid novel. I’d like to get the mermaid novel into Terry Pratchett novel comp, but I’m running out of time to do that. I doubt I’ll be able to rewrite and polish it now.

Coming up is a new interview from the novel critique group – Leife Shallcross. Looks like it will be really interesting.

Writing update for May

May 23, 2012May 14, 2012 by Chris Andrews

Well, I’ve been madly reworking the last half of Prophecy of Power: Werewolf, my epic fantasy, in the hope that Angry Robot will ask for the full manuscript some time in the next month or two.

I’m not planning any major changes, but I think the tension needs to escalate more, particularly in the last four or five chapters.

With a few minor structural changes – basically having most of the main characters come together at the end, I should be able to achieve that.

As it is, two of them don’t really do much, but if I could bring them together, elevate the angst and have it all culminate in a final fight scene, it should work much better.

I’ve got about six or eight thousand words to do it in. Fingers crossed.

Update 4 – Writing plan for March

March 28, 2012 by Chris Andrews

Only managed about 400 new words this week, but I did do quite a bit of editing – 11,500 words worth, or about six chapters.

I’m aiming to improve on that this week. Got the Angry Robot submission coming up soon. It’d be great to have the whole thing ready on the first day of subs, rather than just the first 10-15,000 words in the hope of getting the rest of it up to scratch in the following weeks (just in case they ask for it).

If they want it, I don’t know how much time they’ll give me to get it to them. Better to be safe, and even if they don’t want to see the rest, it won’t exactly be a wasted effort.

Only thing I’m currently struggling with is how much to send in – where to cut it off. There’s a perfect spot just after the 15,000 word cut off, but if you ignore guidelines they’ll just reject you out of hand.

Bit of a tough call.

Update 2: Writing plan for March

March 13, 2012 by Chris Andrews

I barely managed a few hundred words and a spellcheck for a novel last week.

About half of it was due to camping (and getting organised for it), but I should have done much more than I did.

Hopefully it’ll come together this week – I aim to write 1500 words and spellcheck a different novel, as well as continue to edit it.

I’ve only got about a month left to get it into top shape so I can submit it to Angry Robot.

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