Hello hello, and welcome to our now 13th (XIIIth) writing club update. My dictionary explains that the meaning of “thirteen” is:
One more than twelve.
Truly to words to live by. Shuffling around my books for a more inspirational bit of numerology, I find the chapter in Mervyn Peake’s “Titus Groan” book, wherein we’re introduced to the outsider “Keda” who is to be a wet-nurse for the titular prince of Gormenghast. I’m not sure how that relates to what we’re doing here, but it’s a pretty weird, and cool, book.
Speaking of weird and cool…!
As always, all are extremely welcome to participate in the writing club, regardless of whether they’re in the list above.
In part thanks to a certain test reader (can I say who it is?) my disabled mage series has gotten a few small but substantial plot fixes since I’ve had a good reason to tweak it more.
My primary focus has been drama scenes, those where the dialogue revolved a little too purely around the protagonist at the cost of either the scene not feeling relevant enough to the main plot or like the others were revolving a little too much around the protagonist. I injected fun tangents, side conversations, and interesting bits that hint more toward the main plot to break things up. This also helps the pacing and makes these scenes feel less universally depressing.
Other than that, I’ve still been mostly focused on tech work, and might be for another 1-2 months. But I remain confident I’ll get back into more intense writing work moderately soon, in a few weeks.
That’s awesome!! I’m glad you’ve had a reason to do some editing (I dread editing large pieces of text 👹), and I can say as one of your newer test readers that it’s so cool seeing a series in its earlier form, while it’s still taking shape. It makes me wonder what some of the old books I’ve loved looked like before they were all polished and edited and in their final drafts.
Good luck on your tech work also. I too am spending more and more of my time on computer stuff generally.
God bless sensitivity readers!
It wasn’t one in this case, I definitely could use some more. The fixes were mostly pacing related!