Kevin's Watch

Seareach wrote:dlb...be nice!

Oh, alright. But it's so much fun to give you a hard time.

That's what I thought, too!

I have just delivered the third draft of THE LAST DARK. Under the circumstances (the circumstances being that Putnams has already put the book on their schedule for October), I have no doubt that this will constitute D&A. For me, the next step will be copyediting; but of course my publishers have a variety of things that they need to get done.

Just to provide a frame of reference: this draft is 932 pages (not counting WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE and the Glossary). I've done some rather draconian cutting, all of which I believe was necessary. I deliberately wrote the first draft *long* because I wanted to be sure that I didn't leave anything out. But the result was an unusually high number of repetitions and digressions; and weeding them out--while creating more effective or at least more efficient alternatives--has been a very long and arduous challenge.

2/12/13

woo-hoo!

Hold on a moment. I have been in the same room with SRD and Orlion simultaneously.

They. Are. Not. The. Same. Person.

Maybe there is an attribution I missed somewhere, or is Orlion's post evidence of the "Clairvoyant" claim in his title?

~edit: I see the announcement on SRD's site, so I now know where the news came from...as if the post above were not pitched like a man making a pedantic point.

Whelp, I've been doing some research, and I predict that around, say, March 29 we will have something more to go on... something more substantial like a trailer or even (holy of holies) a first chapter preview!!!

Damn, I've been so good thus far on containing my excitement... must... drown it...in....Faulkner....

eBay ARC - here I come!!

Who is Orlion? Are you Stephen R. Donaldson? I'm confused.

No...I have seen them in the same room.

Savor Dam wrote:...I have seen them in the same room.

That statement would be true whether or not I was Senor Donaldson

And to answer another question: I am Orlion

Orlion wrote:I am Orlion

And I'm not!

I mean, in case someone asks...

And before more questions are asked, I'm neither Orlion nor Wayfriend, and I'm pretty sure Savor Dam is not Stephen Donaldson despite having the same initials.

While I am a writer (unlike dAN), I am not SRD. Not even in the same broad league...I am only an egg.

StevieG wrote:And before more questions are asked, I'm neither Orlion nor Wayfriend, and I'm pretty sure Savor Dam is not Stephen Donaldson despite having the same initials.

Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, Stevie

I'm SRDtacus!

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ussusimiel wrote:

StevieG wrote:And before more questions are asked, I'm neither Orlion nor Wayfriend, and I'm pretty sure Savor Dam is not Stephen Donaldson despite having the same initials.

Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, Stevie

I'm SRDtacus!

u.

Which reminds me of this thread.

Orlion wrote:

ussusimiel wrote:

StevieG wrote:And before more questions are asked, I'm neither Orlion nor Wayfriend, and I'm pretty sure Savor Dam is not Stephen Donaldson despite having the same initials.

Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, Stevie

I'm SRDtacus!

u.

Which reminds me of this thread.

There ain't nuthin' 'riginal left in de wurld

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StevieG wrote:and I'm pretty sure Savor Dam is not Stephen Donaldson despite having the same initials.

...although let it be known that they have been seen in the same room too.

Amazon (US) says Oct. 15 and 688 pages. Someone cut this down to the bone, I imagine. And here is the blurb from Amazon:

"Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power--and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World’s End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance."

SkurjMaster wrote:Amazon (US) says Oct. 15 and 688 pages. Someone cut this down to the bone, I imagine. And here is the blurb from Amazon:

"Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power--and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World’s End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance."

Surely a better blurb writer would have said "Compelled step by step to actions THE consequences OF WHICH...."

otherwise, nice to have something on which to ponder, even if it is in waffly "blurbspeak".

Thank you. I mourn the decline in ability to properly construct simple sentences among those who are supposedly paid to write.