Magebane

If I could keep that up, I could crank out a 125,000-word novel like Magebane is supposed to be in less than two weeks!

My blogger went to Banff, and I all I got was this lousy post ewillett 2009

And today’s first rewritten Magebane sentence (Magebane is a bit further away from the resumption of fresh-material-writing, I fear):

The first sentences I rewrote today…now with bonus photo! ewillett 2009

You’re thinking, “Magebane is the one you actually have a contract for, how come you got more words into the still-on-spec Blue Fire today?”

A mini-review of Marseguro… ewillett 2009

Finally, an update arrived this week on Magebane, the first Lee Arthur Chane fantasy novel.

A half-billion years of irritation ewillett 2010

This afternoon I worked on Magebane, going back through it from the beginning (again) to see what I can salvage and what needs complete rewriting in view of what I really hope is the necessary plot corrections I dreamed up yesterday.

The first sentence I wrote today… ewillett 2009

In the afternoon I was out at the Wascana Country Club again, working on Magebane.

The first sentence I wrote yesterday… ewillett 2009

While my wife and daughter enjoyed the hot mineral water, I took the opportunity to bang out another 1,200 words or so of Magebane, which I finally feel is back on track.

Festival of Words wrap-up ewillett 2009

This is where I worked on Magebane this afternoon – if you look close, you can see some of it on the computer screen.

The first sentences I rewrote today…now with bonus photo! ewillett 2009

But then, everything I wrote today is quite likely going to drastically changed, because as I plowed through it, I felt resistance, the same kind of growing resistance that currently has me rewriting Magebane instead of writing fresh material.

The first sentence I wrote today… ewillett 2009

Here was the first rewritten sentence of Magebane today:

Sunburst Award shortlists announced ewillett 2009