Writing and Stuff
Just hit 45,000 words on my Moon novel. I’ve been averaging 2,000 words a day, which amazes me. I write while watching TV with Erica, so the book is influenced by the political thrillers that we like to watch. I am struggling with internal consistency, and I will have to do a rewrite from beginning to end eventually. I want it to be at least 75,000 words eventually, but I am not sure that I can make it. I’ve been listening to Heinlein’s The Man Who Sold the Moon, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, because his vision of the Moon has greatly influenced my own. He spends lots of words with characters arguing or discussing, using his signature approach known as Heinleining to introduce information into the story without actually stopping to explain things.
My book Space, Time, and Other Dimensions is out in Hardcover. It is 175 pages. I priced it at $15. I don’t really expect to sell many, except the paperback wound up being $10. I don’t make any money on either of the books. Amazon takes the lion’s share of sales.
My book To Become A Dragon is stuck. I’ve finished about 20,000 words, but I don’t see how I will go much further than 30,000. I may have to sell it on Amazon as a short novel or a Novella. My experience with the Moon novel might make things easier. I have learned that nothing eats up words faster than characters talking to each other. I may have to go back and give it the Heinlein treatment of moving the plot along without sentences that tell what characters did, and instead have characters propel their own action through their own words and feelings.