What A Writer Writes

Today's blog topics include: Drawing ever closer to Crimson Soul 2's publication; proof that a "writer writes--always;" X-23's Cancellation: Life Imitating Art 

Tim Cody is currently:
Working on: Crimson Soul 2
Playing: Dark Souls (PS3)
Listening to: Paramore
Watching: American Music Awards


Very exciting! Bang, zoom, I have completed Crimson Soul 2's fourth editing pass! What does this mean? Why, it means that production is progressing quite swimmingly! Nice and rapid at this point! My editor is continuing with editing pass 5 as I type, and after that, editing pass 6 will be a breeze--should take half a day at most.

My author bio, the acknowledgments page, and the synopsis will continue to be fleshed out throughout the week. Then after that, I just need my cover art--and that's that and marmalade! I should be finished all my editing tasks by the end of the week, a goal that should be simple enough seeing as it's just a three day work week. So if I spend Thursday finishing up editing pass 6, by the weekend, I'll just be waiting on my cover art.

Though my hope is that by my next blog update, next Sunday, I'll be able to report that I'm all ready for publication! Cover art and all. In fact, if that was the case, the update would be talking about how I just sent it off to Amazon.

Because I feel like I've been typing the same thing week after week! "Working on this editing pass, still working on it, getting closer to be being done, starting on this editing pass..."

But I suppose that's pretty much what a writer writes when they're not writing what they're writing... Right?

Writing a book can take quite a while, and when you try to write about writing that same book week after week, I suppose it gets a bit redundant. So you know what that means? 

Secret Technique #46: Blog Topic Change! 

I'm pretty bummed that Marvel is cancelling X-23's story. It's a sad commentary on the character herself--life imitating art!

A main aspect of X-23's story is Laura trying to figure out where she fits in the world, and now she's losing her story to join the Avengers Academy. She didn't fit in with X-Force, she didn't fit in with the New X-Men, and now she doesn't fit in with Marvel's lineup of individual series.

Actually, she fit in with X-Force pretty well, because she's such an efficient, badass assassin. But either way, she was ousted. So I bet she won't quite fit in with the Avengers Academy, either--and if she winds up sticking around, it'll be interesting to see how and why.

It's a sad state of affairs indeed! Issue 20 is supposed to be the last X-23, so I imagine that means two more trades. Volume 2 is out early next year, which collects up to issue 16.

After that, it's time to start pretending like I've been a fan of Avengers Academy all along!

-Tim Cody

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