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Writing news
Oct. 9th, 2015 05:21 pmHello! It's been far too long since I last posted anything on here. There are reasons for that.
My day-to-day situation has improved, though things are still unsettled on the housing front. Still, my life is so much less stressful that I can write again! This is an immense relief. I spent a lot of time thinking that all my creativity and skill had just dried up and I was no good anymore. Then my situation changed, and suddenly I can write again. And the ideas are back. I was just too stressed and depressed to spare cycles for creativity.
So! I've started writing an urban fantasy novel about a real estate agent (no, really). I wrote and put some polish on a fairy tale about a shelter dog, but I think Amber and the Fairy Dogmother has to be trunked for now. I can't find a suitable market for it just yet (that I'm actually eligible for), and I'd need it illustrated before I'd want to self-pub, even if it does stand on its own.
I have ideas (finally) for what to do with the world of The Young Lord's Servants (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QB4SFGK?*Version*=1&*entries*=0). The plan is to write a bunch more stories with the same two boys, and rename the series The Young Lord's Servants. That means I need a new name for the story. I can put off making that choice until I've written a second story, though.
And I have thoughts about another setting involving asteroid miners and dragons. That's not even on the back burner, yet. Still at the shopping list stage.
So, next up is working on the real estate novel. Then, short stories about the boys. In the spring, if I can line everything up, I hope to be able to run a Kickstarter to fund illustrations for Starlit Rays (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q0SZ5II?*Version*=1&*entries*=0) and finally get it published as a short children's book. I have no idea if I'll have finished the novel by then. I've never finished a novel before. We'll see.
My day-to-day situation has improved, though things are still unsettled on the housing front. Still, my life is so much less stressful that I can write again! This is an immense relief. I spent a lot of time thinking that all my creativity and skill had just dried up and I was no good anymore. Then my situation changed, and suddenly I can write again. And the ideas are back. I was just too stressed and depressed to spare cycles for creativity.
So! I've started writing an urban fantasy novel about a real estate agent (no, really). I wrote and put some polish on a fairy tale about a shelter dog, but I think Amber and the Fairy Dogmother has to be trunked for now. I can't find a suitable market for it just yet (that I'm actually eligible for), and I'd need it illustrated before I'd want to self-pub, even if it does stand on its own.
I have ideas (finally) for what to do with the world of The Young Lord's Servants (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QB4SFGK?*Version*=1&*entries*=0). The plan is to write a bunch more stories with the same two boys, and rename the series The Young Lord's Servants. That means I need a new name for the story. I can put off making that choice until I've written a second story, though.
And I have thoughts about another setting involving asteroid miners and dragons. That's not even on the back burner, yet. Still at the shopping list stage.
So, next up is working on the real estate novel. Then, short stories about the boys. In the spring, if I can line everything up, I hope to be able to run a Kickstarter to fund illustrations for Starlit Rays (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q0SZ5II?*Version*=1&*entries*=0) and finally get it published as a short children's book. I have no idea if I'll have finished the novel by then. I've never finished a novel before. We'll see.
