Tessera Trilogy blog post 106
Received several informative insights into infantry tactics
at varying levels, i.e. squad, platoon, company which will assist in clarifying
novel narrative and flow.
Received additional insights and suggestions for Sooley Base
medical terminology and narrative.
Editorial critiques are expected shortly from a retired US
Army Ranger who served multiple tours in Vietnam and is currently reviewing segments
from Sooley Base.
Attended the October meeting of the Riverside Writers Group
(RWG) which was a writers workshop as part of annual Parade of Prose and
included an Open Mike segment. Several RWG writers displayed their most recent
published works and I bought one, “The Secret Diary of Ewan Macrae” by Judy
Hill. Judy is a bit older than I and confessed she worked on the novel for
eleven years. It is available as an eBook from Amazon.com, and from reading
just a bit thus far, and recalling segments critiqued at RWG meetings, I highly
recommend it. I opened as the lead in
the Open Mike reading … a segment involving a helo attack on a ship defended
with Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs). There were no written comments, but
another published author said he thought the style was a huge improvement on
previous (I think he was recalling the earlier novel, which admittedly had far
too much narrative). I now have my reading style down … two and a half pages,
printed with 1.5 line spacing, equates to the five minute limit.
Even as I read I noted some necessary changes, and have
incorporated those. The effort goes onward, if slowly. Word count now stands at
95 K and page count at 198, but these will vary as the draft moves forward. Chapters
will be renumbered and resized and in a few cases are being retitled.
