{"id":4983,"date":"2011-05-14T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2011-05-14T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:35:27","slug":"into-the-nebulous-deep-1-1-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/into-the-nebulous-deep-1-1-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Nebulous Deep 1.1 is finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right; my fifth novel, Into the Nebulous Deep,<\/em> is finished! Here are the stats:<\/p>\n

ms pages:<\/strong> 447
\nwords:<\/strong> 101,215
\nfile size:<\/strong> 230 KB
\nchapters:<\/strong> 20
\nstart date:<\/strong> 7 March 2011
\nend date:<\/strong> 14 May 2011<\/p>\n

And the wordle:<\/p>\n

\"Wordle:<\/a><\/p>\n

This novel is a direct sequel to Bringing Stella Home<\/em>, and takes place within the same universe as Worlds Away from Home<\/i> (note to self: find new title for that one). I got the idea for the novel from a conversation with one of my first readers for BSH, who mentioned that James didn’t get a whole lot of closure at the end and still had a lot of maturing to do. Immediately, I saw that there was a story there, and got to work figuring out how to tell it.<\/p>\n

This was back in October, and like so many other things, the project quickly started going in about twenty different directions. I was still on something of an sf romance binge, so I decided to throw in a love story, and that quickly turned into a love triangle with a weird sf twist. But then, I started getting interested in the girls’ stories, which led to other subplots, which led to more stuff…and…and…<\/p>\n

Actually, for a rough draft, I feel I pulled it off pretty well. I dropped the ball on some aspects of the story (didn’t develop the techno-democracy elements of the Colony hardly at all, and dropped James’s sidekick without giving his character a satisfying arc), and forgot to throw in other stuff until well past midway through (the wolf vs. sheepdog debate–Lars has a rather feisty take on that, which should be interesting), but I think the overall structure is mostly intact. For a rough draft, I’m rather pleased.<\/p>\n

Of course, it will need a major triage edit before I can send it out to any first readers. It has problems, I know what they are, and I need to give the draft a major overhaul to get it to the point where feedback would be helpful.<\/p>\n

But after ten weeks of working on this thing, I’m ready to move on to something else. Next up: my second revision of Worlds Away from Home<\/i>. I am sooo<\/i> stoked to get working on this project–it’s going to be AWESOME!<\/b><\/p>\n

The song that had the biggest impact on my as I wrote ITND was probably this remix of hot head bop on ocremix. I think the lyrics sum up James’s character pretty well, especially in this book: <\/p>\n