Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
The book I’m currently writing is going well. Real life keeps intruding, of course, in various ways, but all in all I’m fairly pleased with it. It’s still early days, of course, and I really wish I was better at thinking up titles, but it’s getting there. I’m pretty much entering the middle phase of the first draft now. 230 A5 pages written. I wish I had the maths skills to work out how many Microsoft Word pages that translates to.
My cousin commented on how violent The Tale of the Birds is. This one isn’t bloody like that, but lots of dark themes are cropping up…neglect, single parents, obsessive behaviour, drug abuse and the like. It’s certainly making it interesting to write, but it’s not exactly the light, frothy children’s book I was expecting it to be. Still, at least I’ve managed to resist the urge to include any massacres. So far, at least.
The other thing this book is doing is getting me back into writing after a fairly long break. I made a start oon the sequel to The Tale of the Birds a while back, but it came to nought. The other day, though, while writing a scene for the children’s (?) book, the entire prologue for The Tale of the Bird’s sequel flashed before my eyes. It’s perfect, because it explains just about everything that needs to be explained from The Tale of the Birds in an active, progressive manner. And you know what? There isn’t even a massacre in that scene, either. Yet.
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