Apple Tree in Flower, Piet Mondrian
9603. Yesterday I realized if I built up to Ferrant’s sea change I’d have room in the story for the details of the Chaelmaeca, the vas’ru, and the setting. Rosenfeld’s book, Make A Scene, is proving helpful, very helpful. Also, I think I may have to write quotations from the Books of the Chaelmaeca. I like that idea.
So the scene between Ferrant and Gadiel will get pushed further in, but I think I’ll keep the opening scene between Ferrant and Calinora. It needs tweaking, but it’s a good scene as written. Michelle read it and thought it was well done.
I’m trying to decide which November novel to rewrite. I was thinking Silk River, but now I’m thinking the Isabella book, last year’s Nano. Silk River is literary, as in it’s contemporary and doesn’t have ghosts, vampires, or a murder in it; the Isabella book has murder and a ghost, a romance, and supernatural doings–doesn’t mean it can’t be literary too–but…what to do, what to do. Rosenfeld’s book will be handy for the rewrite too. I’m thinking…
The word count is up to date, including yesterday’s work and this morning’s. By golly, I nearly have 10,000 new words on A Lamentation of Swans! Come February, I may actually end up writing a book!
