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L.D. Alford: Works in Progress |
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9 March 2010, I'm working on the edit of Ghost Twilight Lamb. Kind of chomping at the bit to get to Ddraig Gnoch. I really want to get to the Nikita parts of the story. Den and Natana are appealing, but Nikita brings a strong freshness to the story. 3 March 2010, I finished the current run through on Ghost: Athelstan Cying. The work isn't half bad. I didn't add much to it, but fixed some small stuff. I'm moving on to Ghost: Twilight Lamb next in the sequence. One of my prepub readers doesn't like the prologs in the books that explain the previous story. Not sure what to do with that. I think I'll send a note around. 23 February 2010, I did begin writing on Ghost beginning with my earliest book. So far, the writing doesn't seem too bad. I've made small corrections and fixes. Nothing too serious, yet. I promise there will be more information in the future--I just have to get up to the next novel. 20 February 2010, I moved my notes to Warrior of Darkness secrets. If you every want to see them again, just take a look. I haven't been lazy all this time. I've been editing and writing on other stuff. I really need to get my stuff together for the printing of Sister of Light and Sister of Darkness. I need to determine where the diagrams should go in the book etc. In the mean time, I edited Antebellum. This is a novel I wrote a long time ago. It would be controversial if printed today because it is about the South in 1965 and 1865 and isn't very politically correct. I mean by that, it is truthful and balanced about the historical relationships between the blacks and whites in the South. The data come from first person accounts, mostly letters from that period. If is a great suspense, mystery, coming of age novel. No romance, but lots of excitement--some psychological underpinnings too. I have been planning to work on the Ghost Ship Chronicles. I'm going to make a major edit on the first four novels and spring into the fifth and planned final novel of the series. If I get too long, I may make a sixth novel, but I plan to work out everything in the fifth. So beginning tomorrow or Monday, I'll be in on the first four books. Oh, I also went through Warrior of Darkness again and Enchantment of the Hearth--that's the new name of Goddess of the Hearth (it'll make my publisher happy). I want to read Warrior of Darkness again. It really has some themes and ideas that create awesome tension and power. 7 December 09, I've already had feedback from one reader on Warrior of Darkness. I made some additions and fixes. I've been promised to get hard copy with notes on all the novels. That will give me an excuse to go through them all again--I love that. One of my other readers finished Shadowed Vale. I want to Write Ddraig Gnoch next, but I will have to read all the Ghost novels again. That will allow me to pull in all the elements. I want Draig Gnoch to conclude the Ghost novels. |
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Here is the current list of novels I am working on or have finished. You can see the working title may be entirely different than the final title. This is because until the work is finished, I usually don't bestow a title. I think the year started is right in most cases.
How to read this chart. The highlight indicates the novel I am working on now. Column: 1. My original numbering sequence. The large number is the number I gave a work when I put the list together in about 2000 or so. The small number is the order of my concept development of the novel (Illidin is the first novel idea I conceived). The Ghost novels have some suffix letters because I imagined them as one book and later broke them apart into three (now four, maybe more). 2. Type of work. Fiction - F, Historical Fiction - HF, Science Fiction - SF, Fantasy - Fan. The small number is for completed novel and the order of completion. 3. Title is the final title of the work. I leave the working title until I fix a final. 4. Year started. I went back and tried to determine when I started each novel. 5. Stat (Status). Writing - W, Incomplete - I, * - ready for marketing/publication, On contract - C, In consideration - A, Published - P (year and month) 6. Words. The number of words in the novel. 7. Notes. 8. Working. Working title for the files. A work can only be considered completed when it is published, and I keep a list of changes for each book after publication. If I ever get a chance to fix some things, I will. Once I have a work started and outlined, I can finish the first draft in about 2-3 months of daily writing (0700 to 2100). I like to aim for 10 to 20 double spaced pages per chapter and about 20 chapters. This is a guide to give about 60,000 words or more per novel. In general, I have a goal of about 100,000 words per novel. Some novels need more and some a little less. |
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Past Notes |
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I just finished writing The Shadow of Light. This is the fifth Aegypt novel. I am very happy with this novel. It is a fun mystery/spy/adventure/ancient/modern world story. You will find it all fits together very well and concludes the Aegypt adventures well. I don't know if I will write another novel in this series, but I left some open ideas just for that purpose. I would like to write another novel based on the children of the family. I propose to work on Regia Anglorum next, but we shall see. Keep checking. I'll put info as I write when I start on that novel. |
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L. D.
Alford is a novelist whose writing explores with originality those
cultures and societies we think we already know. His writing
distinctively explores the connections between present events and
history—he combines them with threads of reality that bring the past
alive. L. D. Alford is familiar with technology and cultures—he is widely
traveled and earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University,
an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, and is a
graduate of Air War College and Air Command and Staff College. L. D.
Alford is an author who combines intimate scientific and cultural
knowledge into fiction worlds that breathe reality.
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