As last time around, in my quest for 90-second breaks from writing ARISEN Books Nine and Ten, and to provide mini-updates on the progress of the work, I seem also to have created a decent little window into the process, or at least the mental contortions, of novel-writing. (Once again a few excellent embedded tunes down there, too. Looks like the first four won't play embedded sorry! You can click to listen on YouTube. Plus don't give up later ones do play.)
Digging down deep - and it's starting to come to life. #ArisenBookNine Plus a reminder: it's ALWAYS 50% pain. https://t.co/vmsMDE7iQc
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 4, 2015
You're either writing your book TODAY - or you're not writing your book at all. "Resistance will bury you." - @SPressfield #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 9, 2015
"The most important thing about art is work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying." @SPressfield
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 10, 2015
Found the fun again today (or at any rate the exuberance), w/a bit of help from https://t.co/U0vB7ORY7V God, I miss the 90s. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 11, 2015
It seems I'm only as good, and as well, as my last writing day. Today I'm 4,500 words. Which is pretty damned good. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 11, 2015
Had excuse for a weak run, thus weak storywork, which I'm not even going to type. What would @BrandonTWebb say? "Tough. Adapt and overcome."
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 13, 2015
(Brandon Webb favorited this one! I'm famous - or at least known to exist by one of my heroes!)
Burke was right: "Never despair, but if you do work on in despair." Just managed back-to-back 4,200-word days. And best. Ali. Chapter. Ever.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 16, 2015
Oleg Aliyev, disaffected Kazakh bioweaponeer and hack survivalist, is back in play. He's a blast to write, all insouciance. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 17, 2015
4,518 words - after brutal asskicking by Resistance
"I don't fold up & I don't bow
I don't roll over, don't know how"
http://t.co/3WjSjmnUmy
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 22, 2015
I come across some seriously funny s%&* in my daily research. https://t.co/EuWxV0WcpI
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 25, 2015
(Absolutely love that video. Watch it. Seriously.)
Soundtrack for today's 4,800-word cataclysm (a 15-ton MRAP bashing through an army of 4k undead): http://t.co/D0uaJ1d63T #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 25, 2015
One problem with a 4,800-word day - it takes half the next day to review and edit the material! Eh, nice problem to have. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 26, 2015
Thanks to 1SG Don (@DHTechs) for pulling me from yesterday's pit of writerly despond. Just have to dig down again. https://t.co/LlZpsIZcXT
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 2, 2015
You don't have to be faster than the runner - just faster than the slowest guy running from the runner. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 7, 2015
Oleg Aliyev, mad Kazakh scientist, floats back to earth - and into his worst fears. https://t.co/GLQ6zGBrTl 101,171 words - and NOT slowing.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 9, 2015
Huge writing day today. Legal stimulants are key. (And watch that tank.) #ArisenBookNine pic.twitter.com/uTHEWwPURX
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 9, 2015
6,755-word day, bizzles: new lifetime record. Thank you Oleg Aliyev - the most entertaining maniac of a character any author could hope for.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 9, 2015
Alpha in Hargeisa two years after the fall. Also almost two years since I was there, writing Genesis! Spooky for all of us. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 21, 2015
"Now I feel the fear rising up
Climbing up, taking over my body
Open my eyes - Set me on fire"
http://t.co/1Z9zF6PHhE
ALPHA TAKES HARGEISA
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 21, 2015
Scrivener says I have 22 writing days left, with daily target of mere 2,764 to hit 200k words on deadline. Coupla clues there for the keen!
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 25, 2015
The Hairy Slit-Faced Bat - just one of many horrors Somalia holds in store for Alpha team. #ArisenBookNine pic.twitter.com/AaklAq7Qgu
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 28, 2015
"The ending has begun
A new kingdom come
A new will be done
Enter into this New Elysium"
http://t.co/VV9hssT56x
#ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 28, 2015
AMAZING writing day. 4,684 words of HOLY S*&%! When I enjoy the ride this much, I know readers will be fighting for breath. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 28, 2015
Wearing my new shemagh to work today - cause you just never know when a shamal dust storm will blow in. #OperatorChic pic.twitter.com/4YVSWKdUU4
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 29, 2015
"I ain't afraid of no last chance to make this whole stadium erupt."
http://t.co/oR39vpHF1a
#ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 10, 2015
45 voice notes; 27m11s of pure action/story design; 1 world-on-fire set-piece over-the-top battle and climactic conclusion. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 10, 2015
Terrifying struggle today: great material, but had to execute! Got hopped up on caffeine/music & just went for it. 4,597 words of BEYOND-OTT
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 11, 2015
Another 5k words, and it looks like I've done it: executed the most ambitious, complex, and over-the-top action sequence I ever conceived. !
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 12, 2015
Couple days of post-writing depression. A few more being too terrified to look at the material. Not bad! Back to work now. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 18, 2015
LAUNCH-DATE PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT
Probably 1-2 weeks away from announcing a launch date for Book Nine. Excitement builds! https://t.co/FL0xF8xdpz
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 19, 2015
Book wants/needs/demands 3 more chapters. So today's run was a story-design run. (TIRED.) Have to beat beat deadline-announcement deadline!
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 21, 2015
This one's all over but the shouting. A glorious feeling to be at end of a book - and to reasonably believe it is (and will be) a success.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 21, 2015
Good story not enough - has to be WELL TOLD. I just made major enough change to order of storylines that I've scared the crap out of myself.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) August 26, 2015
The bit where I'm convinced I produced 182k words of crap. Told this happens every time, but can't see it. https://t.co/LlZpsIZcXT <repeat>
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 2, 2015
ARISEN, Book Nine - Cataclysm launches…
September 30th, 2015. pic.twitter.com/NfDRxQpbfb
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 2, 2015
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely [runs out of time before his editor's damned deadline]." - adapted from Paul Valery
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 16, 2015
Getting a book off your desk is like getting a piano off your chest. You can breathe again - as if for the first time. World so beautiful.
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 17, 2015
Arisen, Book Nine - Cataclysm… is out now! http://t.co/cNwX82eYC4 pic.twitter.com/1DF35MwIij
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 29, 2015
ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood launches Oct 21st
Two Arisen books in a month - and the most desperate adventure yet. pic.twitter.com/9Us0bh8Zra
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) October 1, 2015
ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood is available NOW : https://t.co/TwGuok1Qi2 pic.twitter.com/5aGYNTbcN5
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) October 22, 2015
Well, we finally did it: MADE THE AMAZON TOP 100 OVERALL. Holy heck. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all readers. pic.twitter.com/JfaGhd8YJs
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) October 22, 2015