Never Believe Your Lying Outline

I'm reading several books right now, but probably won't finish them until next week or so.

Well, for those of you who don't come for the book reviews, but are hoping for Alexandra Quick tidbits, I have no books to review (though I've got a couple more self-pubbed ebooks to snark about), so this is another of my long rambly self-indulgent author's posts.

I'm on chapter three of AQATSA right now. Yes, it's been slow going, with me working on it off and on, but I've picked up the pace a bit lately. I am having some of the same problems I had with AQATDR (namely, trying to work out plot holes, and making certain events fit into the story in a plausible, organic way), but they are coming earlier than they did in the previous book. Also, this being the fourth book, there is less that I can "punt" to be explained later in the series, and I have to be more careful that I don't write myself into a corner.

I do have some evil ideas which are even eviler than my original ideas.

( Hey, wait a minute, how much of this crap is planned out and how much are you making up as you go along? )

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Never Believe Your Lying Outline

I'm reading several books right now, but probably won't finish them until next week or so.

Well, for those of you who don't come for the book reviews, but are hoping for Alexandra Quick tidbits, I have no books to review (though I've got a couple more self-pubbed ebooks to snark about), so this is another of my long rambly self-indulgent author's posts.

I'm on chapter three of AQATSA right now. Yes, it's been slow going, with me working on it off and on, but I've picked up the pace a bit lately. I am having some of the same problems I had with AQATDR (namely, trying to work out plot holes, and making certain events fit into the story in a plausible, organic way), but they are coming earlier than they did in the previous book. Also, this being the fourth book, there is less that I can "punt" to be explained later in the series, and I have to be more careful that I don't write myself into a corner.

I do have some evil ideas which are even eviler than my original ideas.

( Hey, wait a minute, how much of this crap is planned out and how much are you making up as you go along? )

[Poll #1602894]