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5/ The specific culture war is all foreshadowed by the final few chapters of Ari 2 and a few events earlier (e.g. discussion earlier of what to do with a body, creation of rituals and culture, etc.).
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6/ Not even sure when the KS for 3 and 4 are. Two years? Three? Taking off a few months this winter to write more. May also try to self fund by setting up patreon clone for short stories. ...we'll see! https://twitter.com/thefilthypapist/status/1154487896126214144 …
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7/ I do, actually! When I wrote 1 and 2 I made ~ 2 hours/day to write (and it took me ~5 years). Now on the farm, I get more like 10 minutes per day (farm chores, plus second job more often than not). If anyone has any advice / ideas, I'm all ears. https://twitter.com/thefilthypapist/status/1154488784190181376 …
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8/ This sounds plausible, and would work for some people, I'm sure, but the way I write is: * build a notes.txt file thats ~10,00 lines long * generate character sheets from that * build biographies for each char, plus goals, weaknesses, OCEAN stats https://twitter.com/BrianEr32944716/status/1154489827938541568 …
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9/ * pondering the philosophical / political / religious / historical themes I want to explore * turning that into list of threads (Ari 3 and 4 have 11 primary threads named blue, physics, orange, labor, management, domestic, ship, delta, politics, jail, and digger) + secondary
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10/ plot out rising and falling tension across two books in an Act 1, Act 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4 narrative structure, with climaxes at end of act 2B (first book of two) and 3B (second book) then I do a cross-product of the 11 threads by the 6 acts to generate ~ 66 sections then I >
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11/ turn each section into 1-2 chapters (acts 1 and 4) or 3-4 chapters (2A, 2B, 3A, 3B) giving ~ 200 chapters then I fill each chapter with 3-6 "beats" or scenes. Each beat / scene has to simultaneous advance the overall narrative structure plus 1 or more character arcs.
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12/ Then, after I've fully "broken" the novel it's just the simple process of turning each chapter and its 3-6 bullet points into several pages of narrative. So, I do that for the ~200 chapters and ~ 1,000 bullet points. That's a first draft. Which is a terrible piece of crap
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13/ So then I rewrite it. That's the second draft. Still garbage. Rewrite again. 3rd draft. Still garbage, but hints of acceptability. Ari 1 & 2 took 6 drafts.
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14/ In between all of that I generate spreadsheets to make sure that my thoughts on kinetic energy weapons, or transit times for Holmann transfer orbits, or Aldrin Cyclers, or whatever, are correct.
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15/ So, anyway, THAT is why I don't just dictate the novels as I'm welding in the workshop or weeding the vineyard.
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16/ Not in Ari 3 or 4. During the time that the book takes place, the Vatican is still deciding if Dogs have souls. We have multiple priests in 3 and 4 (one Jesuit, one Dominican, I think, one other) and two think the answer is "yes", but >>>https://twitter.com/Bound_Unicorn/status/1154497206596055040 …
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17/ That's the kind of thing that the Church needs to study for a century or so and consult the College of Cardinals. So book 4 will end with some suggestions as to the election of a new pope and demographics of cardinals, but no conclusion in the text of the book.
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19/ Anyway, I realize that my painfully autistic approach to writing results in excruciating slow results. And I feel bad about that. But in 50 yrs I'll be dead, someone else will own my farm, I'll have no kids. ...but my name will still be on these. So I try to do an ok job
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20/ Who can say what will happen in the centuries after the close of book 4?https://twitter.com/Bound_Unicorn/status/1154498451658252288 …
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21/ I mean, sure, sure, book 4 will hop 5,000 years into the future near the end ...



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22/ but srsly, tho, book 4 will end with hints of a future Vatican decision, AT MOST
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24/ no, seriously, nice https://linux.die.net/man/1/nice
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25/ No. If I'm trying to decide the OCEAN Big Five personality breakdown of, say, Cody, Blue's son, I need to have a list of potential conflicts he might have with his dad, his mom, Father Alex, Doug Stewart Test, Sam Barrus, etc., so I need to see >>>https://twitter.com/IamSoterson/status/1154498787009683456 …
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26/ THEIR character sheets, and I need to know how old Cody is, which means I need to think about Dog lifespans, which means that I need to do a spreadsheet to make sure that there's enough time for population growth at 624 Hektor, which means I need to figure out what year >
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27/ The Discord took place, which means I also need to check travel times from A to B, which means I need to model the ship that took folks from A to B, which means I need to investigate a series of proposals for fission drives plus also run a new spreadsheet for chemical drives
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28/ which means I need to figure out the mass of the ship and the number of engines, which means I need to go back to Ari 1 & 2 and find out how many engines are left over from a particular Gamma stunt, then make an inventory of those bc Mike Martin has dibs on a few
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29/ so now I've just generated like four new spreadsheets. And you will read one sentence in the book. "Cody was five". And then I'll think "Oooh...that resonates a bit with a Harlan Ellison short story. Was it 'When Jefty was Five' or 'Six'? " >>>
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30/ So I'll look that up too. And I will have just updated four text files and a bunch of spreadsheets. To generate "Cody was five". And that's why I can't do it while weeding the vineyard.
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31/ Go back and check Ari 2. There's a bishop, and he's Nigerian.
I wonder...https://twitter.com/BostonDelendEst/status/1154500325547470848 …Show this thread
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