Now I knuckle down and bust out the final chapter of revisions. Then I’ll do a big pass over the whole thing, adding a few pieces I only just twigged on to near the end, and the 2nd draft is done.
Expect some short stories after that. Thank goodness.
Just putting down a rough list of what I want to work on, after the second Weathermen draft is finito:
1) Last revision of Boilerboys. Get the language and dialects down perfect. Anyone here an expert on the different inflections of late nineteenth century England?
2) Finish the Toilet Maze (aka LAVATRON). I was pretty close to having this done, and then got distracted. Needs some cutting before the endgame.
3) Finish my as-yet unnamed Post Apoc novella. I got around 60,000 words in, reached the final scene, and didn’t know where to go. Or even if it was worth concluding.
4) Begin the Dustbowl short. I have some notes in my notebook but little else.
5) Figure out some way to make the Memory Man short a bit more engaging. Create an actual story inside the mystery.
6) Try to expand a dream I had a few days ago in the library, involving a funfair that wasn’t very fun. It’s only a kernel of a story at the moment, so it’s low priority.
7) Have another look at They Trade In Eyes. A few days of revision should get it up to scratch.
Anything I missed?
Well, the end of the second draft.
Things are going slower than I’d like, but that’s life. It gets in the way. I start uni next week, and that’s going to be an even bigger crimp in my plans. But hey, I got most of the way through.
I won’t be posting up any more segments of Weathermen, not so close to the endgame. But when I finish, I’m happy to send the manuscript to people for some hardcore crits.
