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21 August 2011, I started an new novel with the working title Fox Spirit on or around April. I'll try to get a better date. The work is moving very slowly because of my other work. I'll try to give updates when I can. I also started a blog on general writing called Zen of Scenes at www.novelscene.wordpress.com. 1 February 2011, I think I'll call Daemon: Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. That will keep on the enchantment theme that I started with Enchantment of the Hearth. The novel is being blogged with commentary on the writing. 9 January 2011, Daemon has been through about 3 rewrites. I want to let it sit for a while before I go back to it. The novel weighs in at 121,475 words which is my longest to date. It is a very tight novel in spite of its size. It reads quickly too. The novel is still being blogged at my two blogs. 26 December 2010, I started Daemon on 1 November and finished the first draft on 24 December. The novel is 22 chapters long and I am blogging it at www.pilotlion.blogspot.com and www.ldalford.wordpress.com I'm updating the particulars today. I'll have more soon. |
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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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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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