February's Writing Progress

After having talked about it for over a year, I finally started editing the audiobook of Death & Magic. I'm up to chapter 20, which is about 40% of the way through the text. So far I have about four and a half hours of edited audio, meaning the finished book should be around eleven to eleven and a half hours.

Reading and listening to the book so closely has made me notice a lot of niggly little plot holes and continuity errors. Most of them crept in during editing, when I moved or deleted a scene and didn't fix all the references that depend on it. (For instance, when the village elders in Darund-Kerak are showing Nurfadel's house to Adramal, I say they're using candles, even though it's the middle of the day. That scene originally occurred at night, after another scene in the village that I deleted.)

Our local writers' group did a couple more book signings. We also provided an evening's entertainment for the Friends of the town museum. I wrote a short story for the occasion (set in a museum, fittingly). This was one of the side projects that I mentioned in my 2016 retrospective. If you'd like to read the story, you can - all you have to do is subscribe to my mailing list. Go to http://eepurl.com/_5EDX and follow the prompts. The confirmation email will give you a link to the story on my website.