Update: Moving Along

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Update: Moving Along

A very simple week last week, basically.

Having decided to finish Sekaran, that’s what I worked on, almost exclusively. Thus, at this point, I have three chapters to go rather than five. BUT, probably an epilogue? I think it’s likely to be an epilogue instead of a chapter. Not sure whether that means it’ll be shorter than most chapters or not because that part can go either way. The thing is, the final chapter tied things up in a way that looks to me like the ending, so if I write another bit that’s set later than that, I think I should call it an epilogue.

This sort of question is, of course, totally trivial. The point is, I have three chapters to go. One of them naturally got added recently, largely because I realized there was a fourteen-year gap between one chapter and the next, so I thought I’d put something in that gap, especially because the earlier chapter leaves a somewhat fraught situation hanging and I should resolve that to some degree. Today I will be distracted, but I ought to be able to MOSTLY finish this draft by this time next week, PROBABLY, and then we’ll see.

MEANWHILE

The cover artist who’s doing the cover for The Book Formally Known As World Of Tiers — thanks to whoever referred to the book that way, because it’s funny and I keep sort of thinking of it by that unofficial title — anyway, the cover artist hurt his hand. He thinks the cover shouldn’t be delayed by more than a couple of weeks, so it’s not a big deal, but it means I won’t be showing you the cover this week, which I had thought might well be possible. But, no.

I’m still dithering about what to put in the newsletter. I’m doing The Book Formally Known As W of T (Eight Doors) at my Patreon. I’m still thinking mid-August will be the most likely date to drop the full novel there, September 2 at Amazon, provided the hand injury does not prove worse than expected. But what about the NEWSLETTER? I was going to put Sekaran into the newsletter when I thought it would be shorter, but it’s not going to be shorter, so …? It just tipped over 75,000 words, by the way.

I may still drop the first chapter of Sekaran into my newsletter because it’s right there.

However, I’m also thinking of writing a short story from Vayu’s point of view, fleshing out the little story that Arayo tells Tano about Vayu in Hedesa. That previous sentence strikes me as funny because wow, I just crammed a lot of names into one clause of that sentence. Anyway, does everyone remember who Vayu is? He’s the young man who arranged to give Tano a chance to escape from the inTasiyo and then took his little brother and joined the inKera. We meet Arayo briefly during the events of Hedesa and he tells Tano that Vayu is doing fine and there’s this little story involved, and I think that would be fun to write. So I dashed off a couple pages of this potential story, purely with an eye to perhaps dropping that into the newsletter. Not this month, but next month, because I don’t think I can complete that story in the next few days AND because it should probably go into the newsletter after everyone has had a chance to read Hedesa.

Any story that appears in my newsletter will also appear on my Patreon, either close to the same time OR as the story is finished. Given that everything always turns out to be longer than anticipated, if the Vayu story goes to two chapters, then it’ll appear in two consecutive newsletters and then in finished form on my Patreon.

MEANWHILE

It amuses me that ridiculously generic tabby cats can be so charming and beautiful. Magdalene jumped off the railing to say hi the first time I tried to take a picture of her, but later decided to pose properly.