Off To A Flying Start!

We have more progress to report on the Ghost Novel. Jen completed the first wave of stubs, and has now hefted a pickaxe and joined Kent in the prose mines. (We’d belabor that metaphor, but we need to save the true gems for the manuscript.)

Naturally, there was an immediate obstacle. Much as with the questions about the setting that we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Jen’s scene revealed that our specs for a certain “machine” were incomplete. We’ve known about this contraption ever since the early stages of planning and plotting the series, but now it needed to actually be described. Which means decisions must be made that will affect many scenes down the line.

We’re still trying to get back up to full speed with the whole actual-writing-the-book part of writing a book, so needing to pause and hash out details was frustrating. But having a writing partner means having someone to hash such things out with.