I know I’m not the most sociable person (well I didn’t pick up writing without a reason), and I usually don’t like to put myself in front of people. If you read all of these posts, I already gave my diatribe on social networking a few months ago see, but these days, I feel like I want to expand my circle and start to spread the good word around that I might have some interesting things to say.

So, as of today, I opened a Twitter account, where I will hopefully produce more than on this blog. I also opened the options in this blog that broadcast new entries to blog referencing sites : up until now, people could only get here by some pretty lucky (or unlucky) Google searches. Now, there will be more probability to come here : I’d better start to say smart things !

On the first novel front : I painfully edit each chapter. I edited today chapter 21 out of 43. I felt like I had done some real editing there : I cut out paragraphes by the halves, I was happy. Then I looked at the word count : I’m up 2 words when I had hoped to be down 250. Ok, I had to put in some new text to account for one of my alpha reader’s remarks, but still! On the second pass, I will have to try the regular Brandon 10% cut by page, but I begin to have serious doubts as to my capacity to cut anything out of my work.

As I said in the last post, I have two other projects running right now :

• the second novel’s outline : there, I feel like I have enough material in my head to start an outline. We’ll see where this goes.
• the short story : here, I have done some research on the subject and feel like I have an interesting angle for a short story. I have now to start brainstorming to see where I can lead this. Let’s hope that I won’t have to revise too much, otherwise, I’ll end up writing 15 000 words instead of 7 500.

Last point : I feel like I need to post on other fields than writing in this blog, so maybe one of these days, you’ll see me rambling here about astronomy, my work, or even politics. Could be funny!

Stay tuned!