{"id":3316,"date":"2011-07-12T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T17:36:09","slug":"finished-1st-draft-of-the-turing-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/finished-1st-draft-of-the-turing-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished 1st Draft of TURING & BURROUGHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 9, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been working full-bore on Turing & Burroughs<\/em> for a little over a year now.\u00a0 As of yesterday, my novel file is finally longer than my Notes file! 81,621 words in the Novel file versus 80,750 words in the Notes. A turning point. Although the Notes could yet pull ahead again.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m on the train, going up to San Francisco for a night today, seeing John Shirley read tonight, and reading at Borderlands tomorrow. Will bring the laptop and keep the fire going. I\u2019ll sleep at my son\u2019s house in Berkeley, even though he and the family won’t be there tonight.<\/p>\n

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July 10, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the morning, alone in Rudy Jr.\u2019s house, I did some work on the novel and essentially finished it.<\/p>\n

First I had a false-start idea for Chap 17: V-bomb<\/em>. But I realized that wouldn\u2019t work. Too complicated. So I made it simpler. It\u2019s all about simplification near the end.<\/p>\n

I wrote the V-bomb chapter right through to the ending. Hooray! I\u2019m almost done. I just have to add Chap 18: \u201cLast Words,\u201d\u009d <\/em>supposedly by William Burroughs. I was really happy at this point. I walked to the BART stop and a homeless guy looked at me and said, \u201cYou the happiest man I see today!\u201d\u009d And he was right, I was grinning, aglow, joyful.<\/p>\n

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One more thought I had later that day: For Alan to effectively modulate the V-rays, and to not hamper the explosion, he should dematerialize into matter-waves right before the explosion.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, I was hanging out on Valencia Street in SF with my artist friend Paul Mavrides, telling him about the plot of my novel, and about the last scene I\u2019d just written and about my recently conceived tweak. Paul was laughing in a friendly way. \u201cSo that\u2019s the perfect way for you to distribute your ideas from now on. Dematerialize into matter waves and modulate the V-rays.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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July 11, 2011. <\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, tonight I wrote \u201cLast Words,\u201d\u009d the last little chapter of The Turng Chronicles<\/em>. I was sitting in my California-Craftsman-style La-Z-Boy recliner armchair in the living-room with Sylvia reading on the couch. The book\u2019s first draft is done. Calloo, Callay!<\/p>\n

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July 12, 2011. <\/em><\/p>\n

On the morning of July 12, I lay out on my yoga mat in the back yard and marked up the last two chapters two times, retyped them twice, then went over the final chapter onscreen one more time. And fixed a last To Do item. I think it really is done now, although of course I\u2019ll reprint the final chapter one or more times.<\/p>\n

And then I\u2019ll have to do the whole book printout and the full revision thing. But for now it\u2019s good enough to mail to an editor. Over 85,000 words, as planned. I wrote nearly 4,000 words in three days. Yeah, baby.<\/p>\n

Finis coronat opus.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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