The disturbance in losing Efanor was so profound and the emotional jolt so hard that I couldn’t go on working as I was, but I will get back to it. In the meanwhile I had to keep working—when you work for yourself, you just have to keep on going, because the alternative is no-funds and no-food. So I hauled out the Chernevog project and got through one bad week with the resurrection of a book which itself represented some very devastating times.
I gave Rusalka a new copyright because of some revisions, but the one I knew most needed it was Chernevog: that one encompassed parental illnesses and some very, very hard times for me. My concentration had gone to blazes, and even an outline wasn’t helping me.
It’s been long enough now that I can get into that file and not recollect all that was going on in my life just then. Which is a good thing. I’m both appalled by the condition of what’s there, and amazed by the clarity of what I intended to do: that’s one darned good story buried in that confusion.
Well, to put it plainly, I’m rewriting it—not the good stuff; but I’m making it work the way it should have worked. What was wrong with Faery I can say was not my fault. This one was. But I’m fixing it. It’s going to be soooo much better. Those of you who were charitable enough to see the story past the problems, thank you: but I think you’ll enjoy this one when I get it done!
I have always enjoyed those books, and while it is hard to see how you can improve on perfection I will be most interested to see what you have in mind 🙂
Clarity—common sense—focus? 😉 Seriously, thank you so much. But this round I’m doing it better.
CJ, I am so glad Chernevog is getting the attention it deserves. I had trouble getting through it the first time I read it (in my youth), but I loved the concept/story. I’ll be one of the first to purchase the re-edited version. Sorry for all your sorrows and those of Jane, but glad Eushu is starting to bridge the gaps. I’m up to my ears in work and will be stuck in New Mexico with limited internet access for the next three months. Maybe my to-be-read pile will diminish somewhat, while I’m away from home, family, and housework.
I am so out of sorts, I can’t recall, but I think I had bought the trilogy in used books and have them in a “to read (someday)” box. — And wish I’d picked them up when they first came out. (Budget back then.)
Today, I made a bit of progress at home. Everything’s round robin, picking at a bit of this and then a bit of that…sometimes hard to see any real movement. So today was good; real, visible results.
In with that, I’ve been very conscious of my two cats, mindful of how they, esp. Bright little Smokey, are like yours and Jane’s. (Smokey could be a distant cousin of Eushu, they look so much alike.
Then I got a personal reply from Jane, because of a comment I’d made, and her generosity was incredibly unexpected, and very dear. Thank you both.
Tonight, right now, I’m sitting with my grandmother, listening to the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Show podcast, great music and entertainment we both can enjoy. — Yes, I get how scattered it can be.
So I’m thrilled to hear you’re working on Chernevog. I’ll look forward to reading the revised edition. Yep, I get that you may switch back to the Foreigner book when you’re ready again.
Neat stuff.
Well, I liked that trilogy very much. My first reading was long ago, but I remember it as needed particular close attention and thinking – part of the wizard skills Sasha was developing, and any puzzlement I felt seemed part of Sasha’s development, and Peytr’s impatience. I’ll be interested to read the re-written version – writer thinking and writer process is one of the treats of this blog and Closed Circle.
Well, I think this time through there’ll be some detail and ‘why’ that got totally overrun by grammatical salad. I’m delighted with how strong the book is—despite what was going on; but I can say I’m going to be so much happier with this edit.
I like the original books, and I look forward to the revised version.
I remember the original trilogy only vaguely (I began reading them in HS, and finished them during a taxing time at a college I eventually got very disgusted with and left). I await the rewrite with much interest!
I was looking at PC Week online to see if the latest Windows upgrades are likely to crash my system–it has happened!–and I saw that besides today being Star Wars day (May the 4th be with you), it is also the Free Software Foundation’s Day Against DRM. The article linked to a nice little guide:
A guide to DRM free Living
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide
And #4 on the guide, well above Project Gutenberg or EFF or Creative Commons, is Closed Circle. With link. Win!
Epic win!
Oh! Will haveto check that link tomorrow or Friday. Many thanks, Walt.
I wonder if perhaps the article writer’s a fan. That’s a very nice referral.
— And even nicer to point out pro authors committed to practices that *benefit* and *resect* their readers and customers. Rare.
This past two weeks, I’ve run into four language texts and one computer graphics text which complained I had “exceeded the number of licensed copies” (apparently two). Why? Because I have them on my Kindle and Kindle for iPhone, and wanted them on my Kindle for Windows PC. It’s the same net, same system, and I swear I’m not using them simultaneously. I (obviously) paid for them. Not happy with the limit. I’ll buy from some other author or book publisher, instead. It’s a shame, because what I’d read so far was good, and I need those references with me. It makes me appreciate sensible practices so much more.
That was, of course, *respect*, not “resect,” which would give quite a different meaning to the whole affair. Oh dear.
Your books have helped us through some hard times and continue to do so. Whatever you need to do, we want you to do. And, when you get a spare moment, you might give that little kitty a pat for me. What a luckly little kitten he is to have found such a loving home.
Seems to me, that the best storytellers, when they gather us around the fire, or settle in their place in the corner of the inn, always manage to embellish a tale, to let us into a new scene or three, to stop us from being complaisant about the ‘old tale’, to draws us deeply, once again, into the magic.
Yippee!
Can’t access Lynn’s blog; is there a problem? Or do I need to look at my computer settings?
I think there is a problem as I cannot access FoC either. I don’t think we need to worry about our computers (I use a MacBook), BUT is Lynn ok?
She’s ok: she did an FB upgrade that went bad, and has had all sorts of goings-on demanding her attention to prevent her getting her blog straightened out, another part of Seeking North up, etc…it’s coming.
Thanks. After a few days of inability to access, I was concerned. Tell her we are thinking of her, and being patient!