The first thirty-nine pages of Bread, Milk and Blood and Gehma Ramblin’…
Unlike my Serenity/Firefly 2005 NaNoWrimo Novel entitled Leaves on the Wind, I won’t be posting the rest of BMB online.
I’m going to be finishing the novel and will be sending out query letters once I’m ready. One of my co-workers whose read one of my other scripts thought the title was disgusting (in a good way), so that’s a step in the right direction right there.
With NaNoWrimo behind us it’s time to refocus on Welcome to Gehma.
I spent sometime during the last few NaNoWrimo Write Ins going over my 2004 NaNoWrimo Novel called Gehma: A Rider’s Tale that Welcome to Gehma is based on and I’ve been hacking away at the overview chapters and adding more to the already 55k word count.
Looking back on the novel there is no hook in the beginning of the novel, it’s a lot of cold, info dumping that doesn’t need to be there. Granted some of it needs to be there to explain things but taking a page from my screenwriting misadventures: Hook them in the first 5 pages.
I think once I get some of the info dump narrowed down I have a scene that should hook people.
I’ll be seeing Paul C today, if he has any Gehma images I can pass along you will be the first to know.
Also, any of the inner circle of friends/editors feel like giving the first thirty-nine pages a once over with their red pens are more than welcome to tear it apart.
PS: For those Whovians in the USA: The Doctor Who Original Television Soundtrack CD is worth the money.
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