The Terry Pratchett Prize, Round Two...
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Tonyblack said:
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Congratulations and good luck!
Congratulations and good luck!
I'm having the book critiqued by a friend before I send it off.To celebrate, I'm re-watching almost every episode of Red Dwarf from the beginning, in preparation for the new series when it comes out.
To be fair, the conclusion is a bit hasty and up in the air, but I'm more or less satisfied with the outcome.
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Trying to keep my spirits up here - had got into a bit of a fallow patch but have just finished a couple of sections off and gone to 200 words shy of 126,000 and a few pages short of finishing the penultimate chapter. :think:
I'm kind of defining the 'alternative Earth' elements now, but I'm back to dithering on whether it's enough of a difference as it's really more fictional messing about with political history and not falling too far outside of the norm? I have invented a new country and stood some tribal culture on it's head, so I guess it's enough but maybe I'll just let the final word count decide. If I get the remaining half chapter done without breaking the 150,000 limit (which seems pretty attainable atm) then I'll probably go for it depending on editorial comment and review
I'm kind of defining the 'alternative Earth' elements now, but I'm back to dithering on whether it's enough of a difference as it's really more fictional messing about with political history and not falling too far outside of the norm? I have invented a new country and stood some tribal culture on it's head, so I guess it's enough but maybe I'll just let the final word count decide. If I get the remaining half chapter done without breaking the 150,000 limit (which seems pretty attainable atm) then I'll probably go for it depending on editorial comment and review
Jan Van Quirm said:
Trying to keep my spirits up here - had got into a bit of a fallow patch but have just finished a couple of sections off and gone to 200 words shy of 126,000 and a few pages short of finishing the penultimate chapter. :think:
I'm kind of defining the 'alternative Earth' elements now, but I'm back to dithering on whether it's enough of a difference as it's really more fictional messing about with political history and not falling too far outside of the norm? I have invented a new country and stood some tribal culture on it's head, so I guess it's enough but maybe I'll just let the final word count decide. If I get the remaining half chapter done without breaking the 150,000 limit (which seems pretty attainable atm) then I'll probably go for it depending on editorial comment and review
I'm kind of defining the 'alternative Earth' elements now, but I'm back to dithering on whether it's enough of a difference as it's really more fictional messing about with political history and not falling too far outside of the norm? I have invented a new country and stood some tribal culture on it's head, so I guess it's enough but maybe I'll just let the final word count decide. If I get the remaining half chapter done without breaking the 150,000 limit (which seems pretty attainable atm) then I'll probably go for it depending on editorial comment and review
otherwise I'd be glad to assist... :whistle:Edit: at least at the reading part
Well I may take you up on the reviewing side of it mC. I've got a v.g. editor who's been letting me have feedback as I've been writing so they only have two chapters to see too, but I have been getting several other people look at it for review purposes so I get commentary from people with different reading preferences and I haven't got anyone who has English as a second language so to speak - so yeah, if you're volunteering! This is the African story I was telling you about in August BTW :shifty:
I can't do anything as pedestrian as a straightforward alternate history novel. I needed something fantastical driving the story, and yet the rules state that it has to follow the laws of physics. Never mind that they used time travel and parallel universe hopping in Half-Sick of Shadows without explaining it. Which was annoying once I got that book and read it. But what can you do?
God, my brain's so [EFF!]ing fuzzy, I can't write at the moment. Which is [EFF!]ing frustrating. I have two novels I want to rewrite, not to mention the new epilogue to my entry for the TP Prize. Argh! :angry-banghead:
God, my brain's so [EFF!]ing fuzzy, I can't write at the moment. Which is [EFF!]ing frustrating. I have two novels I want to rewrite, not to mention the new epilogue to my entry for the TP Prize. Argh! :angry-banghead:
