Brief Update from David

munroburton wrote:

The book is at 0%. That 90,000 words is an appendix treatise on the ultimate fate of the ex-SLN SDs.

Or possibly a tech bible on dual use frigates with Treecat Marine crews

JohnRoth][quote="Duckk wrote:Got a call from David earlier, he is 90,000 words into Uncompromising Honor, which will be the book that wraps up the situation with the Solarian League. He doesn't have time to visit the forums, because if he does, he'll never leave.

Assuming he's aiming at 300,000 words and will cut 100,000 from the first draft to get there, he's at 22% to end of first draft. Then there's his editing time before sending it in, Baen's edits [1] which he will have to deal with and the copyedits which he will also have to deal with. So I'd say 10% to 15% - assuming he's aiming at a camel-choker of a book.

[1] That's what caused a lot of the problems with the last book. There wasn't time for a copy-edit.

I hope he's nothing like me. I can take a story I've written and edit it, then re-edit it , then re-re-edit it, ad infinitum ... and never be done with the fool thing.

Seriously, I'm glad he's doing and (hopefully) feeling better.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

kzt wrote:Cool. 5% done!

Are we really expecting this book to be 1.8 million words?

munroburton wrote:The book is at 0%. That 90,000 words is an appendix treatise on the ultimate fate of the ex-SLN SDs.

Handwavium has an odd shelf life. It has an exponential decay with each publishing in the series 'til final book, wherein a 360,000 word balloon payment becomes due or the remaining stockpile of handwavium is lost forever.

Therefore, Mr. Weber is 25 % complete into using it before losing it.

Seeing as that destroying those hapless SDs require no handwavium, Mr. Weber may have to frivolously find a use for them even if simply to have something on which to spend some of that stockpiled surplus handwavium.

Just for clarification, is that 90,000 words of new plot or does it include previous scenes 'from a different point of view'?

jtg452 wrote:Just for clarification, is that 90,000 words of new plot or does it include previous scenes 'from a different point of view'?

i feel like i remeber david saying that he was done with that

robert132 wrote:

JohnRoth][quote="Duckk wrote:Got a call from David earlier, he is 90,000 words into Uncompromising Honor, which will be the book that wraps up the situation with the Solarian League. He doesn't have time to visit the forums, because if he does, he'll never leave.

Assuming he's aiming at 300,000 words and will cut 100,000 from the first draft to get there, he's at 22% to end of first draft. Then there's his editing time before sending it in, Baen's edits [1] which he will have to deal with and the copyedits which he will also have to deal with. So I'd say 10% to 15% - assuming he's aiming at a camel-choker of a book.

[1] That's what caused a lot of the problems with the last book. There wasn't time for a copy-edit.

I hope he's nothing like me. I can take a story I've written and edit it, then re-edit it , then re-re-edit it, ad infinitum ... and never be done with the fool thing.

Seriously, I'm glad he's doing and (hopefully) feeling better.

Hell, I still want to re-edit the things I've already had published. It takes a major effort for me to turn aside from the ones that are done, done, done and move on to the next one.

cthia wrote:
Seeing as that destroying those hapless SDs require no handwavium, Mr. Weber may have to frivolously find a use for them even if simply to have something on which to spend some of that stockpiled surplus handwavium.

I am forecasting that they will be used as targets to test out the new longer range energy torpedoes.

tinfoil wrote:

cthia wrote:
Seeing as that destroying those hapless SDs require no handwavium, Mr. Weber may have to frivolously find a use for them even if simply to have something on which to spend some of that stockpiled surplus handwavium.

I am forecasting that they will be used as targets to test out the new longer range energy torpedoes.

Someplace, one line, noting they have all been scrapped.

Duckk wrote:Got a call from David earlier, he is 90,000 words into Uncompromising Honor, which will be the book that wraps up the situation with the Solarian League. He doesn't have time to visit the forums, because if he does, he'll never leave.

I am just glad that he is still functional and able to write. Even happy enough that it takes as long as it may, just so long as he can finish it

Uncompromising Honor.

Mighty peculiar that the author always seems to win this category. If I didn't know any better I'd say that traditionally, this particular event is always fixed.

But back to Uncompromising Honor...

Can an optimist and an opportunist take this title to mean that Honor lives... that her hull integrity shall not be compromised?