Star Trek thoughts, round two

Since I was going to a Yoshida Brothers concert up in the city this evening, and kniedzw was going to the city for an IMAX showing of Star Trek with his co-workers in the late afternoon, I decided I might as well tag along and see what the space dive looks like when projected on a ginormous screen.

(Pretty good. Makes me wanna take up skydiving.)

Anyway, this is the post where I spoil like a spoilery thing, so I'll cut-tag again.

( More like a review than the last post . . . )

another milestone

Now we're at 20K. Once upon a time, this would have been a fifth of a book; since this novel's planned for 140K, it's a seventh.

That feels like quite a bit less.

But I made some interesting decisions in tonight's writing, like answering the question of "how will this character find out about this otherwise well-concealed thing?" with the tidy solution of "they'll tell him." I need to make sure they have good reasons for that, of course, but it'll be easier than contriving a reason he can stumble across it on his own. And this gives me a chance to spin a particular element of the Onyx Court in a direction I haven't taken it before. When you're writing a series, these things matter.

Now, however, we go into the Month of Unpredictable Progress. I'll be on the road, without my research materials or a quiet place to work half the time, so for the next four weeks, 1K/day goes out the window. I'll get what I can get, when I can get it. And then in mid-June we'll see what good that semi-composting time has done me.

(Hopefully a lot.)

Word count: 20,718
LBR census: Love (of the puppy-dog sort) and rhetoric (of the rebellious sort).
Authorial sadism: Knowing how to hook Irrith.

Another one down

I'm sad to see that Paradox Magazine is closing down, after thirteen issues. Word is that they may try to do anthology projects in the future -- I hope so.

They published my short story "The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe" last year, and my flash piece "Salt Feels No Pain" is in this final issue. Christopher Cevasco was a pleasure to work with, and I wish him luck with any future incarnations of the publication.