Moving in on the target....
Mar. 7th, 2007 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentine298 pages in SMF, for a total of 74,500 words. Life, as they say, is good. I have several more plot points to get through and that will be that. Yay! (Right on time, too; my usual spring landscape design business just kicked into gear.)
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matociquala; without you, the community wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't have gotten this book started, much less this close to the end. Who'd have thought I could be so disciplined in my writing?
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Today's research involved visits to several sites to learn about lost-wax metallurgy. One of the bells has lost its tongue and my protag needs to make another.
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Dimo is haunting me these past several days. Not surprising; I left him at a pivotal point in his life. I made the mistake of playing Tommy Emmanuel's album Only this weekend. One of the songs on that album is Dimo's theme song. (I think it's called Stay with Me, though the album sleeve is upstairs and I'm not sure that's the right title; second song on the album if you're one of the few who imported this album - and if you haven't got it, and like acoustic guitar, buy it!)
The Dimo who crept into my head after it occurred to me what I'd done was not a pretty sight. Not to worry, though. I've let him stay with me until he found himself to a happier place. If anyone ever asks me who my favorite is, I'll say Dimo, Prince of Angst. *g* Canum is my longest-lived visitor, but he's more my alter-ego. Dimo is my demon child, the clown who lets very few get close enough to see the tears behind his mask.
I miss having him in my head every day. But it's nice to know he's happy again.
Thank you,
novel_in_90. Oh, and matociquala; without you, the community wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't have gotten this book started, much less this close to the end. Who'd have thought I could be so disciplined in my writing? ***********
Today's research involved visits to several sites to learn about lost-wax metallurgy. One of the bells has lost its tongue and my protag needs to make another.
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Dimo is haunting me these past several days. Not surprising; I left him at a pivotal point in his life. I made the mistake of playing Tommy Emmanuel's album Only this weekend. One of the songs on that album is Dimo's theme song. (I think it's called Stay with Me, though the album sleeve is upstairs and I'm not sure that's the right title; second song on the album if you're one of the few who imported this album - and if you haven't got it, and like acoustic guitar, buy it!)
The Dimo who crept into my head after it occurred to me what I'd done was not a pretty sight. Not to worry, though. I've let him stay with me until he found himself to a happier place. If anyone ever asks me who my favorite is, I'll say Dimo, Prince of Angst. *g* Canum is my longest-lived visitor, but he's more my alter-ego. Dimo is my demon child, the clown who lets very few get close enough to see the tears behind his mask.
I miss having him in my head every day. But it's nice to know he's happy again.
Re: Closing in on "The End"
Date: 2007-03-08 09:11 pm (UTC)I am glad to hear that. I know it took me several years before I built up enough confidence in my own writing to understand that discipline was possible. I'm sure you'll get there.
I have long maintained that these characters come to me, wanting to tell me their stories. It's as if our universes had crossed temporarily. Then they fade away back to their own time, and I'm left to miss them and wonder what new adventures they're getting up to. Dimo was one of the more extraordinary characters; I wrote the novel Cavalier Attitude in four months start to finish, and first draft was clean and coherent enough that it went directly up on the 'shop. It's seen some revisions since, mostly to the starting point of the novel, but it's basically the story as I got it in first draft.
The Bells novel is coming even more quickly than Cavalier did, which makes me think that maybe Cavalier was not a fluke. *g* And I like the characters, but there's still no one like Dimo. Yet. Maybe next novel!
Have no fear; I'll post when it's done. For one thing, I'm looking forward to being able to read again!