{"id":615,"date":"2012-03-27T07:14:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:14:57","slug":"silence-of-the-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Silence of the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the rather long silence on the blog recently, I’m not quite dead, nor have I stopped writing. I’m actually under 13,000 words from the end of Chloddio<\/em>, which is the next novel in The Four Part Land. The novel in question currently stands around 95,000 words written, and has been going through a fairly intensive editing process. Originally, it was 106,000 words when I finished the first draft. After two editing passes, it was 68,000. <\/p>\n

Yes, there was a lot of useless cruft that had to be chopped and removed. Most of it describing the scenery, and day to day life. There was a lot of day to day life, and it was boring and dull. So it’s gone. <\/p>\n

Since that second editing pass, I’ve been replotting and adding large segments to the story, and now I’m close to done. Another two weeks or so should bring me to the end of the writing pass, and then I can go back and see how much this draft needs to be edited down and rebuilt. Hopefully, not too much, because I’d like to get the book out this summer.<\/p>\n

And, well, the other reason for my silence looked like this:
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