@steventalkingbooks.bsky.socialI have to accept that I made some of the technology in The Embassy book 4 a bit too fiddly. It's a little more realistic, but that is just bogging down a few scenes, specifically one where were should be accelerating toward the conclusion. So goes editing.
#AmEditing #TheEmbassyBooks
@steventalkingbooks.bsky.socialProgress on #TheEmbassyBooks book 4. The chapters with blue 🟦 flags are done enough for early readers. The chapters with yellow 🟨 flags still need one last thrashing.
Soon.
Scrivener says 138,640 words. That'll probably drop to 135K or so.
#AmEditing #IndieAuthors
@steventalkingbooks.bsky.socialOn this day, 2018, I was working on the first Embassy book.
I've done a lot of work in various coffee shops. This one is now gone, but they have a dedication in my first book, Clash of Cultures.
@steventalkingbooks.bsky.socialDid I get the missing book proof?
Tigger would like to know!
Even Walnut, who notoriously kicks books off shelves.
They look nice on the shelf though.
@steventalkingbooks.bsky.socialMaking up words can be tricky, but I do love the term "trifurcated limbfinger" to describe this particular alien's physiology.
#AmWriting, #AmWritingScienceFiction #AmEditing #TheEmbassyBooks
@steventalkingbooks.bsky.social"This was not the first official meeting I’d attended in my underpants, and someone needed to find out how that kept happening. But not today."
— Benjamin Taylor, The Embassy, Book 4.