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There are three novels I’m currently working on. They are all at different stages, but here’s a quick overview:
Writing
The Wandering Year has been published online up to chapter fifteen (see here). As it is now going through a far more professional editing process than it originally had, I have stopped the instalments, but they will resume very soon. (And yes, for those who keep asking, it is now ‘very soon’, rather than the ‘very soon’ it was four months ago.)
A Crow To Pluck is a science fiction novel looking at the effects of war on two different communities. It will be finished by early next year and then I’ll start hawking it around.
In All The World is a modern romance novel. The usual elements abound: boy meets girl; will they, won’t they; death and tragedy. This will also be completed by quarter one of next year and again I think I’ll be looking for a publisher rather than offering it free online.
What stories am I writing, what am I doing with them and all the jazz. Or, the weekly post that will answer the frequently asked question of, how’s the writing going.
Writing
Following on from my post last week here is the first instalment of Writing Wednesday; a look at what projects I’m working on and various weekly updates as to what’s working and what isn’t (and is it me).
As I don’t want these posts to be too lengthy, I’ll start with a simple list and then expand on particular points as the weeks go by.
Novels
There are three: The Wandering Year, A Crow To Pluck and In All The World.
Short Stories
These fall into two categories: those I’ll publish online and those I’ll be sending to magazines.
Flash Fiction
Easy, this one. I have been, and will be for at least the next year, publishing a very short story (less than 1,000 words) each Friday on my web site. These will be inspired by something in the news that week.
Podcasts
I am still mulling this one over, but there is a chance that the Friday short stories will be turned into a weekly podcast.
Six days after NaNoWriMo has finished and I have been taking stock of all the things that have fallen by the wayside in the last month. Most of what I’ve had to put to one side was reading various things – magazines, books, forum posts, beta reading other writers work and admiring new art.
I thought I was doing well on clearing up the magazines until I received the latest BSFA mailing. As far as books go I’m just going to have to spend a night or two in as I would really like to finish ‘Still Life With Woodpecker’ and ‘Going Sane’. Forums and looking at pictures can be done a bit at a time, so maybe that will also be solved by next week and I’m going to spend an evening to doing some beta reading.
Of course, on top of this, normal life rolls on, it’s party season, I’ve got the chapters from ‘The Wandering Year’ to check over and publish and ‘A Crow to Pluck’ is stoically refusing to write itself.
But who am I kidding. I’m loving it all.
