Sep 23, 2016

Hey everybody,

Just did a little ready-through of the newest bit of the draft. There’s a lot of stuff there that’s decent! And there’s a lot of rickety bits that aren’t complely coherent just yet, but I tied off the obvious ones as best I could, and it’s time to move on.

I counted the songs in the book earlier. In the first 116 pages, there are 20 songs. 20! That’s probably not Tolkien level, but it’s a fair number for the likes of me. Of course, it’s a lot easier to put lots of songs in if you only put in a verse or two, but NEVER MIND THAT, TWENTY SONGS I TELL YOU.

The next chapter you’ll read is called The Clatter-Wheel. It’s about 2500 words long, which means I’m committed to pumping out 5000 before I upload it. I want to get that done by Sunday. We’ll see how that goes. Could be a high bar! We’ll See!

I’ve often wondered how an author would end up with one of those six hundred page tomes that certain authors manage, but I guess now I’m starting to see how that comes about. The characters keep doing things, and then they need to deal with the consequences of those actions, and then it’s ten thousand words later and they’re still in the well how did this even happen?

Maybe that’s what an editor is for, WHO KNOWS?

In the meantime, I’d like to invite you to read some of my other fiction, which is science fiction and not at all in the same vein as Thrum, so it will definitely delight those of you who came strictly for the musical fantasy!

http://michaelgburton.com/tag/short-story/

There are a bunch of shorts there, none of the really tied together at the moment. There are also a few snippets of Thrum, though I think even the ones I’ve uploaded here have by now transformed quite a bit.

Nonetheless, I’d like to invite you to visit. You seem like a nice person!

Hope you’re well,
mgb