March's writing progress
What with all the excitement I've been having lately, I'm not quite as far along as I'd like with the first draft of Stone & Silence. It's currently at 71,000 words, meaning I've written about 7,000 words since the previous update.
(If I'm honest, I hit this kind of slump around this point in every novel, where I find myself wishing I'd decided to write something else, or was doing something that isn't writing. I've learned to persevere and trust that I'll get through it.)
I haven't written anything of Stone & Silence today, but that's because I've started recording an audiobook edition of The Accidental Dragonrider .
Not quite Abbey Road...
I'm about 40% of the way through the narrative, so another day or two should see that finished. Then I want to try doing distinct voices for some of the characters, such as Esald and the Proctor, so I'll allow another day for that. Then I have to edit it to remove all the mispronunciations and sentences that I didn't emphasise the way I thought I should, as well as all the background noises (did I mention that I live next to a railway station?). I've already discovered a few mistakes in the text that slipped past my proofreading - the words "uniform" and "surface" used twice in consecutive paragraphs, and a scroll that changes from being written in Middle Nuhysean to Old Nuhysean while Iko isn't looking at it. All good fun...
(If I'm honest, I hit this kind of slump around this point in every novel, where I find myself wishing I'd decided to write something else, or was doing something that isn't writing. I've learned to persevere and trust that I'll get through it.)
I haven't written anything of Stone & Silence today, but that's because I've started recording an audiobook edition of The Accidental Dragonrider .
Not quite Abbey Road...
I'm about 40% of the way through the narrative, so another day or two should see that finished. Then I want to try doing distinct voices for some of the characters, such as Esald and the Proctor, so I'll allow another day for that. Then I have to edit it to remove all the mispronunciations and sentences that I didn't emphasise the way I thought I should, as well as all the background noises (did I mention that I live next to a railway station?). I've already discovered a few mistakes in the text that slipped past my proofreading - the words "uniform" and "surface" used twice in consecutive paragraphs, and a scroll that changes from being written in Middle Nuhysean to Old Nuhysean while Iko isn't looking at it. All good fun...
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Mar 29, 2015 12:57PM
I finished recording the audio yesterday. It took a bit longer than I expected, mainly because I did a chapter or two each day in the evening rather than another long day. I ended up with 13.5 hours of raw material, occupying about 8 gigabytes of disk space, which I think will edit down to about 3 hours of the completed book.
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