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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
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
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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.
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.
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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....
Damn, I've been so good thus far on containing my excitement... must... drown it...in....Faulkner....
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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
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Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, StevieStevieG 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.
I'm SRDtacus!
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Are posted on the door,
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What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
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What Boogie Street is for.
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Which reminds me of this thread.ussusimiel wrote:Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, StevieStevieG 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.
I'm SRDtacus!
u.
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
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Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
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There ain't nuthin' 'riginal left in de wurldOrlion wrote:Which reminds me of this thread.ussusimiel wrote:Your double negatives are not adding clarity to the situation, StevieStevieG 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.
I'm SRDtacus!
u.
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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Release date
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."
"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."
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Re: Release date
Surely a better blurb writer would have said "Compelled step by step to actions THE consequences OF WHICH...."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."
otherwise, nice to have something on which to ponder, even if it is in waffly "blurbspeak".
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