zornhau: 20K to go...

Zornhau (

zornhau) wrote,
@ 2008-03-28 14:54:00

Entry tags:

revision

20K to go...
Just finished editing the hardcopy of the penultimate 20K.

The final 20K needs a few changes before I print it - battle needs tweaking in response to single_point's feedback on tech, and the finale needs some steroids as suggested by one of my crit circle.

Then...

There are about half a dozen items on my snagging list, mainly continuity stuff, e.g. the hero's Housecarls keep fluctuating in number.

Finally, I need to double check the feedback from my crit circle in case I've missed anything - I don't always take people's advice, but I do always consider it...

Then, at last, it's ready for beta reading and release into the wild.

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	sleepycinderell 2008-03-28 03:18 pm UTC (link)
	release into the wild be free, armoured lesbians, be free! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	zornhau 2008-03-28 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	Hell! There are two, just two lesbian scenes in the entire 100K - a 100,000 words that includes four pitched battles, dollops of mayhem, and two more conventional love scenes - and that's all people remember. Penname. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sleepycinderell 2008-03-28 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously though, I like that you have strong female protagonists who are just soldiers sometimes, not actively 'female'. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amberdulen 2008-03-28 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	WOOT. (Reply to this)

	sartorias 2008-03-28 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	Allez, allez! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	I forgive your French... zornhau 2008-03-28 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	Tah! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I forgive your French... sartorias 2008-03-28 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	Entschuldigung! Bin ja ganz verrueckt. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I forgive your French... zornhau 2008-03-28 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	Um. I'll get the wife to translate! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I forgive your French... sartorias 2008-03-28 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	It's "beg pardon! Gone totally nuts!" I picked allez allez because they used to yell that before charging into the melee. I thought it quite appropos (another French word) for launching into the hell, snakepit, er, crapshoot, er, world of publishing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Oh, a war cry! zornhau 2008-03-28 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	Right. Now I get it. Yes, it is a bit scary. I think I know how to write a novel now, so if this one founders - as it might, since it has flaws which are impossible to unpick (mixed metaphor) without unravelling the whole - my next may find a better landing site. The main thing now is to write another one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I forgive your French... zornhau 2008-03-28 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, we tend to call this phase I'm leaving "the arrow storm." You know what to do, you've made your equipment choices, but you still have to march 300 yards through the mud while archers shoot at you, before you get to demonstrate your worth (or not). So, "allez, allez" is strangely appropriate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I forgive your French... sartorias 2008-03-28 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	My fencing instructor (Hungarian, trained in France between the wars) used to cry "Allez allez!" when he wanted you to stop defending and go on the attack. I didn't know what he was saying until I started taking some french, and then tracking old French military terms, and found out that it was also an exhortation to the charge. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	verdandiweaves 2008-03-28 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	You do know this is where the hard part starts, don't you? :) Unless of course you're very lucky ... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	calcinations 2008-03-28 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	clank clank Clunk Door opens. A group of people in armour and carrying swords, guns and stuff enter the office. "Wha. Who are you?" "I've got a book for you to read" Manuscript lands on desk. Hypnotised editor picks it up and starts reading. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	verdandiweaves 2008-03-28 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	YOu have a point. Now, if only I could write lesbian scenes as well as Zornhau (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zornhau 2008-03-28 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	Penname.. must use... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	calcinations 2008-03-28 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Thats good news. However, call me pedantic, but I would say release into the wild is when it is published. You're more trying to coax it gently into a nice fenced area where it can demonstrate its abilities at survival before you pit it against the real competition. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	zornhau 2008-03-28 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Good point. However, I'd hardly call the submission process "a nice fenced area". It's more of a pitfight, I think. I think of it more as released into the wild, with a view to surviving and acquring its own den, i.e. a publisher, unless something eats it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

single_point
2008-03-28 10:58 pm UTC (link)

no book containing the sort of major characters invented by Zornhau's fevered imagination is ever going to play nice in a fenced off area ... they would immediately burn it down, drive over it in large vehicles and then sally forth to find another novel's fenced off area and burn that down as well.

Z's novel is the literally equivalent of the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

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	zornhau 2008-03-28 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	One can but hope. Such kind words. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	calcinations 2008-03-29 10:33 am UTC (link)
	Hahaha (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nycshelly 2008-03-28 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	Coolness. Good luck. (Reply to this)

	henchminion 2008-03-29 01:51 am UTC (link)
	That sounds awesome. Let me know if you need another beta reader. (Reply to this)

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