Sooley Base word count as of 27 January 2013 – 96,000.
Sooley Base page count 209 as of 27 January 2013.
It has snowed twice in the past week, and the weather
included five days below freezing. Now we have weather in the seventies ... Go figure!!!
Work continues on Sooley Base. Gathering
notes, shuffling segments and bits and pieces – these are all part of my
eclectic process. The characters are set, and the timeline is written out of a
long scroll, down to ten minute segments in some sections. A technique recently
showing promise is printing up chapters,
then redlining them and shuffling segments to better fit the needed chronology.
Configuration
Management or CM has a central place in engineering and in software
development … and in writing. An author needs to ensure notes, updates, and
revisions don’t become confused or misplaced. I’ve taken to putting together summary copies
of all the chapters from start to finish. It helps by helping to remove
duplicated segments, allowing word and page counts. Still a long way to go.
Another segment from Golden Gate follows:
“Perhaps
Stefano, that’s his name, right … can dig out where that helo crashed. I really
doubt it, as the Saudis are surprisingly silent on that point … with reason. I
wouldn’t want other terrorists going there and setting an anniversary bonfire.
I wonder if our comrades by the Wailing Wall know about this.”
The Force
Ten team rappelled fifty feet down from the helo to what appeared as the
largest crash remnant, part of the Huey’s main fuselage. Captain Hourani and
Sergeant Achmed went first, their AK-47s slung across their backs, charged but
safed while they descended. They conducted a fast initial survey, ensuring no
one was alive from the crash to offer resistance; there were no survivors and
they safed their weapons.
