22-November: Elevated, Chapter 9 is up.

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A Rose, Unexpected

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A short story of sorts...

Looking through my notes on Rose from Elevated yesterday, I realized I had an awesome story that hadn't really gotten told in the main text of the Elevated. I spent some time drawing the notes together, adding bits and pieces, and structuring it all into a narrative and the end result is a new piece called A Rose from the Garden, which parallels and interlaces with the events from chapters 4-6 of the main piece.

I'll start revising it today. If it's not ready by this Friday, it will probably go out next week.

Grooming - it's kind of my thing.

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Stepping back in order to charge forward

Some time in the middle of the past week, it became very easy to write Elevated. I posted chapter 7 and put the finishing touches on 8 & 9. Ten is theoretically done except for the last scene, but I'm pretty sure I want to rewrite the penultimate scene to support what comes next.

This is all very vague because I'm trying to avoid spoilers. But ultimately, Elevated is about the evolution of Corvus Gallicus. It has a definite plot through-line (which will be more visible in hindsight,) but it's mostly character-driven. Chapters 9-10 are a major pivot point in Corvus's personality and the last scene is a huge capper. If it doesn't work, the whole story is weaker.

I put it aside at about 1:30 this morning to get some sleep and left it aside this morning to percolate. Going through my current hopper, I realized I don't have a lot on the back burners right now either. I want to do some character-building for A Faint Scent of Roses, which is the first actual story in the fertility crisis story discussed in Mules, Men, and Honeybees. And I still need a stronger through-line for Topher and Allegra, but I'll probably end up free-writing today.

I still find myself abysmally bad at writing properly short short stories - 20-30 pages with a full story arc, good characterization, and no loose ends. Maybe I'll try one of those today.

8-November-2013: Elevated Chapter 7 & Kitty Likes to Watch

I'm posting chapter 7 of Elevated and the next installment of the tomcat diaries, Kitty Likes to Watch early this morning because I need to be in the office during the day tomorrow and they don't know I'm Tom Frost. ;)

I'm most of the way through chapter 8 of Elevated already and picking up steam on a story set at the beginning of the New Roman empire helping to explain how it all came about. More on that later. Right now, I need some sleep.

1-November-2013: A Tomcat and a Gentleman & Elevated Chapters 5-6 are up.

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