Sometimes a character is so annoying that the writer has no other option but to write about him or her. It’s as if the author has received divine inspiration. The words flow like a floodgate. Everything makes sense. Life is breathed into this character and he or she becomes real.

And sometimes it doesn’t work that way.

Zane has become annoying to me in another manner. I find him stupid. In Space Punk, Zane begins his journey as a stupid, twenty-something alcoholic trying to score a big catch. He fails miserably, repeatedly, all while hitting the bottle, shooting at people, being shot at, having sex, remembering times that he had sex, and meeting a bunch of different people.

It’s easy for me to simply write off Space Punk as a first-person narrative that should be trashed. I break pretty much every rule of writing that exists. The story starts off very slow. I tell the reader what is happening instead of describing what is happening. I personally think that the last handful of chapters does little to close up the story that builds during the first three-quarters of the book.

I also sometimes feel like I am guilty of trying to surprise my readers with cheesy, over-used plots and twists. And another thing that I am most definitely guilty of is blabbering on about the projects I am currently working on instead of the things I have completed. In a way, that is a very truculent thing to do to my readers.

I wish I had more blog followers. I wish I had more readers. It might actually matter what I type in here.

Super Space Punk was pretty much done a few months ago, but I let an editor read it and he trashed about half of it. Said it was utter crap. It makes sense, I suppose, because I threw the majority of it together in a rush, hammering out generic words with late night bouts of coffee. When I got his notes back I trashed the second half of the book and started over from there.

Zane is annoying me to no end. I feel as though I’ve graduated from this amateurish way of telling a story, and yet I remain oddly dedicated to completing the entire story. Regardless of the level of quality, I just want to finish this tale. I already have a third Space Punk novel half way completed. It’s a better book. It’s 3rd person through the eyes of Lizzy Raine.

Zane is a completely different person in that story. He’s grown up. Now I have the dirty job of turning this space punk into a respectable man using a writing style I have grown above.

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C.E. Lange

We all have that one thing that keeps us so entranced we lose track of time. Some of us have multiple things. For me, it’s video games, writing and reading. Lately, I’ve spent entire nights typing up a storm about Sederic or the characters in my Space Punk Universe.

This is a bad thing for me. I drink a great deal of coffee. I get all caught up in the moment, in the excitement, the fact that I am ‘in a flow’, so to speak, and my fingers knock out thousands of words that I might otherwise never discover. And this leads to the all-nighter, that inevitable realization that it is three or four in the morning and my wife is about to wake up and get ready for work.

But I guess it’s great for the readers. I wrote an entire book in the month of January. I finally did it. It’s short, I admit that, but that’s why it’s only $2.99! I’ve tried writing a book in a month before. I even documented this attempt right here on my blog. But I failed then. My characters weren’t interesting enough to me. It’s been six months since then and those characters still have not spoken to me.

I’m doing it again. I started writing another Sederic book on February 1st. Today is only the 7th and I have 14,000 words. This puts me well on track; ahead actually. I look forward to being able to say I have another new book. I love it. I love accomplishing things. That’s why one of my resolutions this year was to get all my writing in focus.

I’m finding this focus. I’m always learning, changing, making things better. Maybe I shouldn’t meddle so much. I might turn into George Lucas. A bit hard to do, though. I just hit 1,000 sales in December of 2012. Mind you, this is spread out over a 3 year period. That’s just over 333 books per year, or roughly one per day. At a royalty of just $2.00 each, you can do the math. I don’t have a fanbase the way George Lucas does. I’m trying to get that fanbase, and being able to edit my work, enhance it, make it better, that’s part of the beauty of digital format.

I hope my readers understand.

C.E. Lange

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Great news! I’m not posting today to talk about how awesome something is going to be very soon. I’m actually posting today because something IS DONE! Imagine that.

You see, Sederic and the Dark Rockets was recently completed, proofed, critiqued, edited, and everything. The title will be available to readers on January 31st, 2013! That’s tomorrow!

Here’s another look at the cover. It will become a clicky link as soon as the title is available for download! Excited!

Sederic and the Dark Rockets

More information about Sederic is available at www.Sederic.com

EDITED: Title is now available and the image is now a link.

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C.E. Lange

Well, it’s not available yet! It’s still being polished. The editor noticed quite a few inconsistencies, which is great for me, but it also means that I need to relax and quit trying to push things out so quickly, right? But that’s what he’s there for.

I have been so busy with my Sederic titles now that I suppose I wasn’t putting enough focus into Super Space Punk. I promise it will be ready soon! The original release date I had in mind was February 1st. It looks like it will be sometime in February now, most likely towards the end.

I know… It’s been a two-year wait. But movies often take longer to create a sequel, right? Not that I’m making excuses or anything. Here’s the cover art for Super Space Punk!

Part Two coming soon!

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C.E. Lange