Week 48 of 2024
Greetings all
Just a few hours until book 2 of the amazing Vechnoye Saga comes out. It’s Tugarin’s Revenge by H.Y. Gregor has a really cool by Alexandre Rito as you can see.
And you can get it a little early here: amazon.com/dp/B0DNLDK58K.
Then, on December 27th, you’ll get Chernobog’s Wrath to complete the series!
Exciting stuff!
As exciting to me is the progress I made on The Feasting of Vengeance. I made a post on X (@Rhodri2112) that writing is so much fun if you know what you’re writing. That was after a 3,000 word day, which is a lot for me.
Well, it’s not been the only 3k day this week, and overall I went from 96k to almost 111k.
And that’s not all. I edited a bunch of it too. I do, basically, two editing passes. One is the churn pass where I go back over what I’ve written with the aim of improving, expanding, and filling in gaps. This isn’t really a pass, per se, but a number of smaller passes along the way that end up as a full edit.
At this point, I’ve edited all the way up to 106k on The Feasting of Vengeance. Basically, I’m writing one day, editing it the next, which is feeding the new writing. This is why things are going fast.
This is also the sort of thing that happens when I get close to the end. I don’t have to deal with the mystery or intrigue, I don’t have to worry about getting the characters from A to Z, I just have to make a great fight and conclusion.
But wait, there’s more! My main final editing pass is what I call bediting. Basically, it means I’ve lain in bed reading the work on my phone in the Kindle app. I’ve found that reading the book this way is incredibly good for me to see mistakes. This isn’t to say I don’t miss some, of course I do, but this has proven to be very useful. At this point, I’ve bedited up to 91k with maybe a chapter or two more later on.
In short, I’m aiming to send this off to Chris so I can enjoy Thanksgiving, and I think I will.
I’ll let you know in next week’s update, and also I’ll be talking about it at Anthony’s Market Fair, which is a week from tomorrow.
Then, after that, I jump into a new project in Okkorim. Oh, speaking of which, it looks like I’ll be running an Okkorim thing at FenCon in February in Dallas.
Oh, wait, did I forget to mention I’m got everything set up to go to that con as well this week? Oh, and we’re announcing our anniversary party one month from today!
I mean, look at that upcoming event list below. I’ll be everywhere, man. I’ll be everywhere.
I hope you all had a great week too, but for now, I’ve got a battle to finish. Have fun everyone!
What I’m Listening To
Browns v. Steelers. I have to admit, AFC North games are often old school, especially on snowy, cold nights.
Quote of the Week
This is kind of a fun day for science, with Ole Rømer presenting the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light (XXX), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes making the first untethered hot air balloon flight (1783), and Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph (1877).
But wait, there’s more. Albert Einstein’s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik (1905).
And oh yeah, the first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI (1969).
And it’s the birthday of Stan Musial and Ken Griffey Jr., Christopher Tolkien, Harold Ramis, two Hall of Fame quarterbacks (Sid Luckman and Troy Aikman) and a Hall of Fame quarterback chaser (Michael Strahan). Plus, of course, the source of today’s quote, Voltaire.
Seriously, November 21, leave something for the other days.
Anyway, here’s some great advice from Voltaire.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
– Voltaire .
Dragon’s Tidings
Market Fair on the 30th.
Also, check our website (www.reddragonquilts.com)!
Rob’s Works in Progress
- Sowing Spring’s Wrath (3,213)
- The Feasting of Vengeance (110,811)
Upcoming Events
- Market Faire, November 30, Anthony, KS
- Kris Kinder, December 14, Kansas City, Mo
- Red Dragon Anniversary Party, December 21, Anthony, KS
- ChattaCon, January 17-19, Chattanooga, TN
chattacon.org/
I’m the Toastmaster! - FenCon, February 14-16, Dallas, TX
fencon.org/ - Gulf Wars, March 8-16, Lumberton, MS
gulfwars.org/ - GaryCon, March 20-23, Lake Geneva, WI
garycon.com/ - LibertyCon, June 20-22, Chattanooga, TN
libertycon.org/ - Pennsic War, July 25 – August 10, Slippery Rock, PA
pennsicwar.org/
New Releases
This week we have Tangled Webs by Mark Wandrey, the fifteenth book in the Phoenix Initiative series of the Four Horsemen universe. This story follows Oort, the Tortantula, so you may want to review Weaver and Winged Hussars. You don’t have to, though—the story is fine as a standalone. And, as with the last couple of books, there is a lot of new information in this, with more and more coming as we approach Exodus, the final series in the 4HU.
Your pre-release this week is Tugarin’s Revenge by H.Y. Gregor. This is book 2 of the amazing Vechnoye Saga and you can get it here: amazon.com/dp/B0DNLDK58K.
Tracked Items
My Weight Today: 364.8lbs
Updated Word Count: 250,653
Firehall Sagas Archives: 758 entries
Have a great week, everyone.
Rob Howell
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