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(mirrored from my author blog)

So I’m up to my eyeballs in revisions. I’ve put in my “think time” and I’m writing actual words at this point. I’m just past the halfway point of the novel, with three major scene rewrites still ahead of me and a number of small revisions left to make. I’ve informed the editor of my progress and scheduled a tentative delivery date of this first round of revisions. (We may go through several rounds.)

But guess what! The manuscript is not the only thing I have to deliver!

I also have to come up with a title, a series title, and cover ideas.

Fortunately, the editor likes the current title of the novel, Assassin’s Gambit, so it stays. Cross that one off the list!

Series title? I have no idea! I have to come up with one! It’s due by the end of next week.

As for cover, this is not entirely my job, but one of the things I love about working with NAL is that they work closely with their authors on cover design. This is a way better situation than some publishers who just slap a cover on the novel and if the author doesn’t like it, too bad. So they want input from me, and that means I need to do a lot of thinking about what I want the cover to look like.

I know lots of writers have envisioned the covers of their novels from the very beginning, but I am not one of those writers. I am not a visual writer at all. I am an auditory writer, the kind who cares a great deal about things like the rhythm of the dialogue and the mouth feel of names and titles. If you look up photos of celebrities to serve as models for your characters, you are a visual writer. If you rehearse your characters’ dialogue endlessly as you are walking about the house, you are an auditory writer. And if you are an auditory writer, you have probably not thought a whole lot about your novel’s cover art.

So I’m thinking about it now, because cover art is important. Good covers sell books, and this is something that deserves a great deal of thought. Even though I have 185 pages of revisions still to go…

Everyone is out at the moment, either doing bar crawls or studying for an exam, which leaves me home with a William Styron novel and my own misshapen homunculus of a tome for company. It's weird; while I have internalized many of the lessons learned from RSBE's previous incarnation, this new material is most definitely still driven by instinct more than the planning impulse. I quite literally don't know what I'll write tomorrow and the reason that proposition thrills me is because I'm in no rush. There's no deadline with this one. Even if this is the only book for which that will be true. This thing will come to me when it comes to me. I'm not going to try to pull it out of myself faster than it wishes to emerge. I'm wiser with this one and I can tell already. It's no longer pitched at the same deliriously furious key the whole way through. It dips and weaves and has gained greater emotional texture. It makes journeys and it wanders and it covers ground, goes from forest to plain to desert, returning to verdant forest.

I've tried to keep from listening to music while I work on it, allowing myself various musical interludes while I'm researching or blogging or facebooking or haunting those "Art of Fiction" interviews over at The Paris Review. But while I'm writing, only household sounds. Only incidentals.

All these innovations of technique and still this feels like a crazy jazz solo of a novel. Some days, it feels like shredding. Some days, it feels like legato and picking all day long. And occasionally, when I look back at a week's work, it feels like a recognizable song.

I was scrolling in body shop and seen theses ain't an_nas default eyes. I've been trying to find them in my downloads folder to delete them

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