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, 2015You'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, 2015Found 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, 2015It 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, 2015Had 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, 2015Burke 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, 2015Oleg Aliyev, disaffected Kazakh bioweaponeer and hack survivalist, is back in play. He's a blast to write, all insouciance. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 17, 20154,518 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, 2015I come across some seriously funny s%&* in my daily research. https://t.co/EuWxV0WcpI
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) June 25, 2015Soundtrack 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, 2015One 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, 2015Thanks 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, 2015You don't have to be faster than the runner - just faster than the slowest guy running from the runner. #ArisenBookNine
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 7, 2015Oleg 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, 2015Huge writing day today. Legal stimulants are key. (And watch that tank.) #ArisenBookNine pic.twitter.com/uTHEWwPURX
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) July 9, 20156,755-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, 2015Alpha 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, 2015Scrivener 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, 2015The 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, 2015AMAZING 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, 2015Wearing 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, 201545 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, 2015Terrifying 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, 2015Another 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, 2015Couple 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, 2015LAUNCH-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, 2015Book 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, 2015This 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, 2015Good 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, 2015The 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, 2015ARISEN, 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, 2015Getting 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, 2015Arisen, Book Nine - Cataclysm… is out now! http://t.co/cNwX82eYC4 pic.twitter.com/1DF35MwIij
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) September 29, 2015ARISEN, 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, 2015ARISEN, Book Ten - The Flood is available NOW : https://t.co/TwGuok1Qi2 pic.twitter.com/5aGYNTbcN5
— MichaelStephenFuchs (@michaelstephenf) October 22, 2015Well, 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
