I spent most of the day blocking out a sequence in which our contestants try to track a gang of rogue librarians from Belarus who are trying to sell a shipment of library materials on the black market in contravention of international bibliographic-proliferation agreements.
When the caffeine wore off, I became convinced that I don’t have the draft of a book; I have a bunch of disconnected scenes in a sack. Rachel and I then spent an hour sitting outside Broders’ Southside Pasta Bar brainstorming how best to bond the scenes together.
Presumably this was just my regularly-scheduled second-act crisis. I am now standing up to go schedule next month’s panic attack on our family calendar.
What are you planning on doing with all the novels you’ve done by the end of your year of doing them?
If I can get my editorial helpers sufficiently happy with a given novel’s quality, then Mozhi and I will put together a design for it and publish it via Lulu under a CC license. In my ideal world we’d be putting up one new title per month from now until we are certified insane. Presumably each title will need N months to go from first draft to Lulu. In my dreams, the first title would hit Lulu around the first of the year.
But I’m probably attracting very bad luck by stating this out loud…
Baby steps…