Some people have noticed that the Liaden Read-Along has, to put it gently, foundered.<\/p>\n
Some people, not necessarily the same people, have wondered what the heck is going on with that.<\/p>\n
I will explain.<\/p>\n
For those who are short of time and impatient with explanations, or excuses, the short form is: I was over-ambitious.<\/p>\n
That’s it.\u00a0 You may move on, as the rest of what I’m going to say past this point is an elaboration on that single fact.<\/p>\n
Still with me?<\/p>\n
OK.<\/p>\n
So — over-ambitious.\u00a0 I had a book to finish — not due until mid-April, but I had already missed two self-imposed deadlines for producing a draft that was complete enough that I could ask beta readers for help.\u00a0 Ordinarily — ah.\u00a0 Old speech forms. What I mean to say is — Previously<\/em>, I would have talked out scenes, concepts and characters with Steve and he would, in essence, since I’m Lead on this book, help me catch unfruitful discursions on the fly.\u00a0 I no longer have that luxury, and so find that I don’t know how long it actually takes to write a book, single-brained — thus the missed deadlines.<\/p>\n The alert reader will have noticed that mid-April isn’t getting any further away, so I — pushed to make it to An Ending, basically ignoring everything else in the process.<\/p>\n I wasn’t helped in my last minute push by the manifestation of Murphy, who decreed that I would catch a “viral something” just after the new year, so I couldn’t write for a few days.<\/p>\n However!\u00a0 I have just achieved the Good Enough for Rock ‘n Roll Draft and will be putting out a call for Beta Readers.<\/p>\n Which means I’ll have a couple weeks to catch up on all that stuff I let slide.<\/p>\n Including commentary on the Liaden Books.<\/p>\n I will not<\/em> be continuing in a chapter-by-chapter sort of way — for one thing, I’ve been reading in the evenings, and I’m half-way through Carpe Diem<\/em>, while the commentary stalled at Chapter Six in Agent of Change —\u00a0<\/em>and for another, that really wasn’t working for me.<\/p>\n What I will<\/em> be doing is commenting on the books, on things that struck me, surprises, dismays, and reflections of Real Life into fiction.<\/p>\n And that?\u00a0 Is where we are.\u00a0 Thanks to everyone for your enthusiasm for the concept of a read-along, and I hope you’ll continue to read on until the end of Diviner’s Bow<\/em>.<\/p>\n I certainly intend to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some people have noticed that the Liaden Read-Along has, to put it gently, foundered. Some people, not necessarily the same people, have wondered what the heck is going on with that. I will explain. For those who are short of time and impatient with explanations, or excuses, the short form is: I was over-ambitious. That’s … Continue reading So, what happened here?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-liaden-read-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}