A hot iron under your butt

[nadinbrzezinski]

posted this on my blog today


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The Tal war….
February 25, 2009 at 1:44 am · Filed under Game Design, Writing · Edit

this novel will advance the time line to the year 3505

It is finished, well the first draft is finished. I’d like to speak to you as a writer. Usually it takes months of planning and months of writing to get this done. Rarely a writer is hit with that hot iron. This is a hot iron that allows you to write from dawn to dusk, with no interruption.

I started this as images and scenes started to come fully formed in my dreams and waking moments. I heard Aidan Malthus and the rest of the crew inside my head. They were demanding to come out. These are rare, and as a writer if you suffer from this… go for it.

This said, this is purely crap.

I can hear it now, what the hell do you mean? Well, Hemingway once wrote that all first drafts are crap. And I agree. The main structure is there. It is missing chunks, side stories, side plot points. But the basic structure of the story is there. You could say this was my Nano month. I got a full novel (Well sort off) written in less than two weeks.

Now starts the fun part. Editing. Adding to it, adding description, adding side trips, adding complications, adding scenes… and chiefly making the language far tighter.

Now I will say this about this novel. It is probably a first in the world of gaming fiction. After all, the Future Nexus world is a world at war. This is an antiwar novel, exploring the futility that is war. There is more. People will go home, those that go home. But they will be forever changed like any veteran from combat. War changes people, and chiefly, war is no game.

But as I drove home I realized the themes of the poetry of the Great War entered into his novel, in strong ways. So there you have it. Once I finish and get ready to go to print. what you will have is an antiwar novel… for war is futile…