The Unification Chronicles

You’d think now that I’m start­ing a new book writ­ing would be fun again. You’d be hor­ri­bly mis­taken, and quite pos­si­bly bark­ing mad. I’ve got 793 words today, 1530 for the book over­all, and it’s just tor­ture. Maybe not waterboarding-​​caliber tor­ture, but at least as bad as being forced to lis­ten to Yanni records.

I’ve got a han­dle on my first two chap­ters, and I know my char­ac­ters pretty well (btw, Dante Hicks from Rev­e­la­tion has been renamed to Patrick Rus­sell, as the name Dante was too sim­i­lar to Daniel if the char­ac­ter is going to be stick­ing around a while). Maybe that’s the prob­lem. A big chunk of this first chap­ter is pick­ing up a few months after the events in Rev­e­la­tion and going for­ward. But I still have to do that awk­ward second-​​book-​​in-​​a-​​series thing where I rein­tro­duce the char­ac­ters to peo­ple who just so hap­pened to pick up this book first – the first and only Nar­nia book I’ve ever read was Prince Caspian, the seoond in the series – with­out appear­ing to intro­duce them to the peo­ple who just fin­ished read­ing about them in book one. GAH.

I do need to send out props to my tweeps. A good chunk of the action in the first half of Cru­sade is thanks to them as Patrick and the rest of Jack’s demon-​​hunters try out all the sug­ges­tions I got from Twit­ter about how to kill a nanite-​​infused demon. (very few of them turn out to work, because it still has to be a chal­lenge to kill these bas­tards in book three)

So I might be able to crest a thou­sand before I head not home, but to the com­pany xmas party. I’ve got a cou­ple of iPhone apps that sync with Google Docs, so I might be able to squeeze in a few hun­dred words at the party if the stand up comics turn out to be, well, Yanni.