Bringing Ragnarok: Book 2 Draft Complete!
I'll allow myself a moment of self-congratulation now: Coming in at just over 140,000 words, Book 2 of the Bringing Ragnarok Saga is written!
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone would want to read it quite yet. Much surgery remains to be done to make it readable in the way I'd like it to be. One of my struggles as a writer is coming up with good metaphors and succinct descriptions. While a Tolkien fan to the max (I'm allowed to say that because I was born in the '80s) I fully realize that he, well, sometimes went on. And on. As my spouse and I joke, Tolkien loved his hills. And made sure to describe each one in full detail.
Me, I can re-read Tolkien's entire Legendarium every year (and usually do, particularly in as hard a year as this has been), but most people don't like unnecessary detail in a narrative. So the next two months I'll be at my keyboard just as much as over the past three-plus.
Still, I call a completed draft an achievement, even if some of the dialog currently goes like "You are dumb," Loke said, grinning maniacally, "and I am a god. Hah hah hah."
Not exactly prime-time material, as the saying goes. According to Civilization 6, Mark Twain once said that "writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out all the wrong words."
Yup. Yup.
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone would want to read it quite yet. Much surgery remains to be done to make it readable in the way I'd like it to be. One of my struggles as a writer is coming up with good metaphors and succinct descriptions. While a Tolkien fan to the max (I'm allowed to say that because I was born in the '80s) I fully realize that he, well, sometimes went on. And on. As my spouse and I joke, Tolkien loved his hills. And made sure to describe each one in full detail.
Me, I can re-read Tolkien's entire Legendarium every year (and usually do, particularly in as hard a year as this has been), but most people don't like unnecessary detail in a narrative. So the next two months I'll be at my keyboard just as much as over the past three-plus.
Still, I call a completed draft an achievement, even if some of the dialog currently goes like "You are dumb," Loke said, grinning maniacally, "and I am a god. Hah hah hah."
Not exactly prime-time material, as the saying goes. According to Civilization 6, Mark Twain once said that "writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out all the wrong words."
Yup. Yup.
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