{"id":6726,"date":"2011-08-15T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2011-08-15T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T03:11:02","slug":"an-aside-first-news-on-a-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/news\/an-aside-first-news-on-a-red-country-by-joe-abercrombie\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | First news on A RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"THE<\/a>Via Abercrombie’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve finished the first draft of the second part of my latest masterwork, workingly titled, \u2018A Red Country,\u2019 or possibly just, \u2018Red Country,\u2019 we will see on that score. For those who have failed to follow this blog religiously for the past few months (shame on you faithless scum), it is another semi-standalone set in the world of The First Law, and fusing fantasy elements with western elements, in the same way that The Heroes was a fantasy\/war story and Best Served Cold fantasy\/thriller-ish. That puts me about 40% of the way through a first draft, though I suspect there\u2019ll be a fair bit of work to do once the first draft is complete. Isn\u2019t there always? Now the terrifying wait for feedback from my editor and readers while I try and sort out what exactly I\u2019m going to do with my next part. I guess one could say that if Part I was a little bit Searchers then Part II rolled into Lonesome Dove territory and Part III has something of a Deadwood\/Fistful of Dollars motif.<\/p>\n

I feel a fair bit more comfortable with this second part than I did with the first, as you\u2019d expect or at least hope. One generally aims to get a better and better handle on the plot, settings and characters as one goes through a draft, until by the time you\u2019re finishing your first draft you know pretty much exactly what you\u2019re aiming at, and editing becomes largely a case of bringing earlier parts into line with that final one.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made quite a significant change to the personality of one of my two central characters \u2013 or perhaps not a change but a clarification, a shift of emphasis and a refinement of style \u2013 and he seems to be working quite a bit better now. In essence, I\u2019ve made him a bit more of a shit than he was before, which tends to be a fruitful direction for me to go in with characters on the whole. Who knew?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken me a little longer to get this part together than I\u2019d hoped, what with one thing and another, but if I can up the pace a little from here on in we should still be looking at delivery early next year and publication somewhere around late summer early autumn 2012. Such is the hope. But you know what they say about hopes.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make a parachute out of \u2019em.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abercrombie’s oft-rumoured, but never quite understood ‘western’ finally has a title to go along its bloody interesting sounding premise. I always love getting a look into Joe’s world as a writer. His efforts make his craft appear so effortless, but the comments quote above just go to show how much work goes into the novels. I mean, changing the personality of a character mid-way through a draft? That can’t be easy. And ‘more shit’? Has Abercrombie found deeper depths of human depravity from which to draw his characters? Can’t wait to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Abercrombie’s blog: So I\u2019ve finished the first draft of the second part of my latest masterwork, workingly titled, \u2018A Red Country,\u2019 or possibly just, \u2018Red Country,\u2019 we will see on that score. For those who have failed to follow this blog religiously for the past few months (shame on you faithless scum), it is… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n