Category: Writing progress
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Lack of progress
Best-laid plans and all that … By now I was supposed to be in the final stages of editing. In reality all that has been on pause since the end of January. I mentioned last time that editing, for me, is the hardest part of the writing process, and that means summoning up a lot…
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Videshi progress
Since completing the first draft of The Videshi Dilemma back in April, I’ve been pushing chapters through the queue at Critique Circle. Today I submitted the final chapter which will be critiqued by Christmas, completing this phase of the writing process. Now begins the part that I find the hardest: revising and polishing based on…
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The Videshi Dilemma
Major excitement at reaching a big milestone late April. The first draft of The Videshi Dilemma is complete, at 106k words. Now the fun part’s done, it’s on with the real work of editing, revising, getting feedback, revising some more … I expect this to last into early 2025 before I can start thinking about…
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Why I’ll never be a prolific writer
Since settling into proper “first draft” mode back in October, progress on The Videshi Dilemma remains on track at the moment. However I’m reminded again of something I’ve noticed from previous novels: I’m a slow writer. This is not a reflection of raw writing speed. When I’m on a roll I can comfortably knock out…
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Website and writing update
More-or-less getting the hang of WordPress. Creating and populating pages is easy enough now, and I’ve fleshed out some of the worldbuilding content that I had on my old site. All sorts of details that are hovering in the background in the novels to immerse the reader in the world. On the writing front, I…
Ian S. Bott, Writer and artist 