Howdy!
I missed a couple of months in there but in my own defense, we had a great deal of Stuff Happening around the house as well as personally that made it difficult to work on writing, which meant there wasn’t a whole lot to update. Am I writing this now to procrastinate doing more writing because it’s supposed to be unconscionably hot today and my brain tends to go on strike in the summer? Perhaps. But it has also been since March since I said anything.
A Peek Into The Refinery
Because I like visual metaphors and writing books is sometimes like working with clay. Or metal. This is an experiment, but the contents are more or less the same as they have been.
Gil Girau Chronicles – Book One is, in theory, fully drafted at a rough total of 115k words, awaiting a quality control pass and final polishing/branding. This is by far the longest I’ve spent on a book and I suspect it’ll show. Book Two is on the workbench as we speak – I’ve reorganized the plot somewhat and am currently making sure my outline and notes are folded together properly before I stick this thing back in the fire and get going with the second draft. Book Three is in the smelter, so to speak. It currently exists as a bullet list and an explosion of digital sticky notes that I will hopefully be able to organize better once I shape up Book Two.
Salt 2: As You Do – Sitting in the quench bucket while I hammer out the dragon story. It’s also stuck in line behind a cat for the moment.
Raw Materials – I have two projects for which I’m slowly gathering ideas while I work on other things. They’re currently labeled “Project: Strongholds” and “Project: Contact.” One of them has most of a cast and part of a plan, the other has maybe a protagonist and many vague ideas. Both are fantasy, both are set on Uthir, though the world will likely have a different name in each of them. Different time periods, different cultures, all that jazz. Mainly, I’m listing these for my own records – “yes, I have been planning this story for [many] years.”
Now, back to work with me. These words ain’t gonna write (or, in some cases, build) themselves. Stay hydrated and keep on keeping on, y’all.