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cblj_backupI took a look at The Dead Isle this morning -- I've now successfully excised Dr. Bland, sorry Dr. Bland, you were awesome in real life -- and happened to glance at the word count in the status bar. I have sixty-eight thousand words still to edit. To put this in perspective, Nameless, the entire book, was sixty-eight thousand words when published.
This is gonna be a big book.
I keep cutting stuff, but it never seems to get any shorter. I kind of wish I could split it in half, but there's no real Major Crisis Climax I could use for the first half, unless you count Jack landing the airship, and I don't. Besides, it would be quite a bit more expensive to buy "Dead Isle, The Two Book Set" than it will be to just buy the one GIANT BOOK. I shall look at it as a chance to push Lulu's manufacturing boundaries and see how well they do.
When I was writing originally, I decided not to worry if Dead Isle wasn't great literature; I gave myself permission to write a pulp adventure novel, where logic and realism don't necessarily play a major part, and I have to say I'm not regretting that decision. Sometimes when I get bored of editing I skip ahead; the ending is incredibly unrealistic, but it's so thrilling to me I find it hard to mind. And frankly if I wrote it realistically, there'd be another sixty thousand words tacked on.
Anyway I will never be tired of Jack "Just because electricity CAN stop your heart doesn't mean it ALWAYS WILL" Baker. He's my verison of "ninjas attack". Hit a writing block? Make Jack say something irrelevant. Need tension? Jack blows something up. Deus ex machina? JACK CAN BUILD ONE.
This is gonna be a big book.
I keep cutting stuff, but it never seems to get any shorter. I kind of wish I could split it in half, but there's no real Major Crisis Climax I could use for the first half, unless you count Jack landing the airship, and I don't. Besides, it would be quite a bit more expensive to buy "Dead Isle, The Two Book Set" than it will be to just buy the one GIANT BOOK. I shall look at it as a chance to push Lulu's manufacturing boundaries and see how well they do.
When I was writing originally, I decided not to worry if Dead Isle wasn't great literature; I gave myself permission to write a pulp adventure novel, where logic and realism don't necessarily play a major part, and I have to say I'm not regretting that decision. Sometimes when I get bored of editing I skip ahead; the ending is incredibly unrealistic, but it's so thrilling to me I find it hard to mind. And frankly if I wrote it realistically, there'd be another sixty thousand words tacked on.
Anyway I will never be tired of Jack "Just because electricity CAN stop your heart doesn't mean it ALWAYS WILL" Baker. He's my verison of "ninjas attack". Hit a writing block? Make Jack say something irrelevant. Need tension? Jack blows something up. Deus ex machina? JACK CAN BUILD ONE.
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Date: 2012-03-11 08:12 pm (UTC)I am so glad you're redoing Dead Isle. Have I mentioned that before? I think I have. IT NEEDED SAYING AGAIN.
(I may be delirious. I was up until
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Date: 2012-03-11 08:48 pm (UTC)Oh no, I loved Dr. Bland! But.....I also loved every ridiculous bit of minutia that you put in the book and probably does deserve to be cut, so ignore my whinging =D
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:05 pm (UTC)Seeee!!!! This is why I am not really sad that you're changing things up, because you come up with EVEN MORE AWESOME STUFF in the process =D
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my very intelligent contribution to this.
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Date: 2012-03-12 01:42 am (UTC)You know, I only read this last year, but I'm not remembering Dr. Bland either. I have a guess after reading the Wikipedia entry, but I guess I'll just have to wait & see.
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Date: 2012-03-12 04:48 am (UTC)When I was writing originally, I decided not to worry if Dead Isle wasn't great literature; I gave myself permission to write a pulp adventure novel, where logic and realism don't necessarily play a major part, and I have to say I'm not regretting that decision. Sometimes when I get bored of editing I skip ahead; the ending is incredibly unrealistic, but it's so thrilling to me I find it hard to mind. And frankly if I wrote it realistically, there'd be another sixty thousand words tacked on.
Anyway I will never be tired of Jack "Just because electricity CAN stop your heart doesn't mean it ALWAYS WILL" Baker. He's my verison of "ninjas attack". Hit a writing block? Make Jack say something irrelevant. Need tension? Jack blows something up. Deus ex machina? JACK CAN BUILD ONE.
:o)