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Finished it this morning. It’s pretty solid, but of course I’ll revise it before I start working on the manuscript. That will happen in the spring, after I revise SHE.

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A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I’d misunderstood the motivation of the second viewpoint character for NHI. Several scenes I’d designed for him bordered on the “idiot plot”–you know, the character acts like an idiot because the plot requires it. Those scenes influenced the main plot, which made many of its scenes less [...]

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After my last post, I did some soul-searching about whether I should stop working on NHI. After isolating and rejecting reasons that had more to do with fear than with craft, I was still left with two very good reasons to put NHI aside.

Research. I wasn’t kidding when I wrote that a lot of research [...]

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I have made almost no progress on NHI since vacation ended. I’ve added a couple of scenes to the outline and modified a few others, but I’ve spent little time working on it. Mornings when I’m supposed to write, I read the paper, read e-mail, and surf the web. Sometimes the surfing is even tangentially [...]

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Carolyn and I just returned from a couple of days away. I’d hoped to spend more time writing than I did, but the few hours I managed to carve out were very productive. I’ve been stumped trying to get the outline for NHI started, but with no distractions (read: no Internet access) I was able [...]

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