Writing Update
Okay, so it’s been a busy time the last little while. That’s not going to change for the next few weeks between regular life, an upcoming interview, Halloween, Remembrance Day, and plenty of other stuff. But I’m still getting my writing time in, mostly on breaks at work.
Heroes Inc Progress
58,516 / 50,000
(117.0%)
I have exactly one scene to write and Heroes Inc will be finished. Under a thousand words and I might even be able to find enough time to finish it tomorrow, thus making the Halloween deadline I set for myself. For anyone keeping track, this will be the third novel I’ve started and finished since Christmas Day last year. Not too shabby, even if they’re all only first drafts.
But I’ve done it at almost the complete expense of my short fiction. Of the 291k new words I’ve written in calendar 2008 so far (yes, I keep track and this number doesn’t include editing, revising, or plotting), 235k of those have been on the novels. So, for the remainder of the year, it’s a short fiction blitz.
There are two stories that need to go back into the wild. Yes, I got another rejection this week. Strange Horizons took a pass on ‘The Last Eclipse’. I’m okay with that and remain confident I can find a home for this story. ‘Failing Hope’ also needs to go out again and this morning I finished the (theoretically) final revision of my submission to the Tesseracts 13 anthology to come out next year from Edge Press. ‘Waiting for Spring’ is a dark fantasy story, if anyone’s wondering. Throw in two other stories finished their final revisions and a lot of stuff I need to get edited, or in some cases written and, well, my word count is probably going to drop off a lot for the next two months but a first draft does not a story make, so I’ll be spending just as much time on my writing.
Updates to follow more regularly, I hope.
