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Gareth Hanrahan
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The terrifying thought that you've written the same scene twice in two different chapters, followed by the realisation that you pressed Page Up instead of Page Down.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Gareth Hanrahan
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No words, but the wardrobe and most of the revisions to Firstborn 3 are done. I didn’t think I’d be finished those until the end of the month. The revisions, not the wardrobe.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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And that's a first pass done. Alarmingly painless! Nearly no changes needed, so it's just prose-polishing now!
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It's quite pleasing to me that, standing next to the baked-bean fellow, Rees-Mogg is *TOAST*.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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About 2/3rds done with first-pass revision of Sword Triumphant, and only one bit of actual rewriting needed so far.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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69,796. I spend most of the assembling a wardrobe, so writing on BL4 got crammed into a half-hour before bed.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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I am reminded that the Amazing Screw-On Head exists and this is not wholly a fallen world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbsD...
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Gareth Hanrahan
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The spiders are not insects but in the war they will side with the insects Traitor spiders traitor spiders they'll betray us and they'll make us HUMAN SLAVES In an insect nation
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Gareth Hanrahan
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OH THANK FUCK YES THANK YOU
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Martin Luther: I was worried about damaging the church doors but CHECK THIS SHIT OUT
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Hmm. Any ideas for something gooey and stretchy that works as a simile in a quasi-medieval fantasy? I had 'like toffee', but my editor correctly points out that it's anachronistic.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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I'm glad you liked them!
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Jess Nevins
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Finished @mytholder.bsky.social 's Sword Defiant and Sword Unbound. Definitely recommended. Page-turning subversion of all the familiar high fantasy cliches. What happens after the Dark Lord is vanquished? What's it like, being the wielder of the cursed sword? And so on. Fun!
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Got my edits for THE SWORD (probably) TRIUMPHANT. Done with a first pass on the first thirteen chapters, although I'll almost certainly need to loop back and untangle one bit which will require breaking a chapter into two. I'll finish the first pass before making big changes, though.
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GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are? UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good. Canapé. RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob’s lair): Get from big spider RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me. Canapé eggs from big spider. Fucking hell.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Just while I’m away for the night. Back to the Mac tomorrow
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Lands of the Firstborn’s a trilogy, as the prophecy* foretold *Paper prices in the 1950s
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Gareth Hanrahan
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1) Yay! Book 3 edit letter is in and it’s very positive 2) Boo! Editing a 170,000 word novel with track changes is taxing my ipad rather badly
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(A scene that follows on directly from a minor encounter in Book 1, of course, because why do anything in a simple linear fashion.) I should just write something simple and fun next time...
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Gareth Hanrahan
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68270. Writing a scene that's a memory-recorded flashback from the perspective of a personality-shard of what's basically a magical AI personality upload, because what the market's crying out for is baroque alchemical cyberpunk with a steampunk hat, right?
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Surely there's Tzeentch in Boris too. Changer of Op-Eds, using arcane words to baffle and overawe his followers.
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iucounu
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these Tory election leaflets are becoming increasingly desperate I feel
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Gareth Hanrahan
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And just got good feedback on Lands 3, so whatever works works.
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67,677. To a degree, it's cheating - I moved a 1000 word section from a previous draft back in, and I'm 95% sure that this current 2000 word chapter will have to go. But the book will get written how it needs to get written.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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May 2025, probably titled SWORD TRIUMPHANT.
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Dan Hon
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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Starting a new Black Iron 4 Accountability Thread for the month. Current word count: 65,852. Target for end of week (70,000 + going to see Suede in Dublin) Target for end of month: Let's say 85,000 as I'll be doing Firstborn 3 revisions in there too.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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65355. A lot less than intended, but this evening's writing was interrupted by a power cut. Even before that, it was a weird scene. Next month, the plan is to break the back of the main action plot line, the expedition to the lost city.
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Charlotte Ariel Finn
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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64780. Slapping clay on the armature. I think the Lyssada scene will have to go, but I'll finish writing it anyway as it'll shed light on other bits, which is totally antithetical to how I usually write. Mongoose trained me never to write anything that wasn't going to be submitted.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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64290. More later. Writing, unexpectedly, a Lyssada Erevesic/Crown of Haith scene.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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He was betrayed by the years 670-630BC?
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63718. This week's been disrupted by a two-day trip to Birmingham, and next week's also frayed, and then I should be getting edits for SWORD TRIUMPHANT. So, sprint time. Goal is 70,000 words total by next week.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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In the old Dark Forces shooter, the stormtrooper rifle fired slightly off-centre in a different direction every time
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Gareth Hanrahan
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63200. Slow start after yesterday's wedding anniversary (14 years!) Today, for the second time, I've written a scene where the lead character of a piece of fiction eats a seagull.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Printing out tickets for flight and hotel and Epic Rap Battles of History in Birmingham on Wednesday. Bringing twin 1. He's bouncing off the walls with excitement.
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Jess Nevins
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Just bought it & will eagerly consume it on my Europe trip!
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Gareth Hanrahan
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I hope you enjoy!
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Gareth Hanrahan
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THE SWORD DEFIANT ebook is still available on deep discount from Amazon and other retailers. I suspect this offer ends at the end of the month, so if you want 500+ pages of aged warriors coming back after the end of the quest, time's ticking...
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Gareth Hanrahan
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I'm, er, rereading my own books as I'm working on a sequel and need to check bits of continuity.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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Gareth Hanrahan
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(#typooftheday mooing and ruminating. hashtag Not A Cow)
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Gareth Hanrahan
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And I didn't have the moment of insight while writing. I had it... well, actually I had it in the bathroom, but let's be decorous for the sake of any future biographers and say I had it while cleaning the kitchen. The point is, I was away from the desk, moving and ruminating.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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3. Earning moments of insight require both raw material and distance. This one is based on what's probably a wholly extraneous intro chapter, but writing that intro chapter gave me the perspective needed to see a throughline that unites pretty much all the major characters.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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But that doesn't mean you were wrong. It just means that a novel's too big and messy to be solved by a single stroke. For a 500-page fantasy novel, there are going to be a dozen moments where I feel completely stuck or wrong, then work it out, then get stuck again.
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Gareth Hanrahan
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2. Blinding moments of insight feel like they don't survive contact with reality. You go "ah! I know what this book's ABOUT now!" or "aha! I know how to get the main character out of this jam" - and twenty pages later, you're adrift again, or in a different jam created by your clever solution.
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