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Chain of Command

I’ve been thinking more about the rapidly-upcoming Camp NaNoWriMo August, and I’m not so sure I’m going to do the rewrite of The Quick and the Dead for it. The more I think about the story and plan it, the more I think it really is a short story and not a novel. So I need to go with a different idea for the coming month. Luckily at this point I almost literally have ideas pouring out my ears, so it’s just a matter of sifting through them and choosing one.

For today’s update, at last I reach the end of the chapter, and the pieces are all in place for the final confrontation. The question of who will go and who will stay is decided, and a niggling issue of the chain of command is dealt with.

The Ship of the Unforgotten, Chapter 32, Part 4

The Finish Line

My GeekBeat article on destroying cancerous tumors with femtolasers was posted today; the link is below.

Today’s piece of the story brings us to the finishline of the race as Dann, Rose, Lydia and Jenny try to beat Cobb to the largest cache of survivors remaining aboard the UTS Rose Dawn.

The Ship of the Unforgotten, Chapter 32 Pt. 2

Non-Invasively Destroying Cancer With Lasers

Camp NaNoWriMo August - Dead Sense

Ever since I finished my zombie story The Fast and the Dead back in February, I’ve been thinking that not only is the title no longer really appropriate but that I’d have to completely rewrite the story. This is doubly true since Camp NaNoWriMo in June, an experience that has taught me a huge amount about longer-form fiction.

So with less than two weeks remaining until Camp NaNoWriMo August, I’ve decided that my August project is going to be that rewrite. I’ll be using the first draft of TFatD as reference material, but I probably won’t have to refer to it all that much. I’ll be taking the core concepts of the story, and the characters, and fleshing both out into something much better. (At least I hope so!)

Gone will be a lot of the empty filler that I ended up writing when I didn’t know what else to write. Probably the most important thing I learned during June’s Camp NaNoWriMo was how to keep all that filler separate from the contents of the book, so with some luck, I should be able to keep it pretty tight.

The Ship of the Unforgotten Chapter 27 Part 2 is Posted

I’m pretty encouraged by how much of my daily word count I’m managing to maintain in the wake of Camp NaNoWriMo for June. Last December after November’s event I found that my word count had dropped pretty low, into the 50-200 words a day range. I’m doing a lot better than that this time around. 

Hopefully with the August event coming up quickly, I’ll be able to maintain it all month and then reinforce it further. That ought to leave me in really good shape for September, with several months of high word counts behind me and two months “off” before NaNoWriMo 2012 begins.

Here’s another large chunk of chapter 27. I might have to write a little more to call it finished, but this is largely it. Tomorrow I go on to chapter 28!

The Ship of the Unforgotten, Chapter 27 Pt. 2