Writing Update Based on New Plan
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marfiskThings are trucking along in the new and improved Margaret world, progressing if not catching up to where I wanted to be.
I've written 13 of the 15 Story a Day short stories I have made as my more reasonable goal, and one might even be perfect for an upcoming anthology.
The proofread of Heart of the Crystal is moving along at a good pace with only the last 15k or so remaining. Regardless of my plans, if I were to get a full request, I could easily turn it around in less than a week, so there I'm feeling much more secure.
I'm also about a third into my latest novel critique and keeping up somewhat with short story edits.
Do I regret all the things I had to cull from my list? Of course. However, they weren't getting done any faster for all that they were screaming in my ears. Now their muffled pleas make sure I won't forget them while not interfering with what I need to get done.
So a much calmer, saner, me is now in command of this blog ;). Of course someday I really should make a novel-specific update, right?
Oh, and to give this post some meat, here are short summaries of my SAD stories. It should give some sense of the breadth and depth the SAD challenge offers and maybe a hint into why I try to do it every year. There's SF, fantasy, and contemporary fantasy all mixed in :).
1: A village witch takes in an injured stranger at the changing of the world from peasant to industry.
2: An alien mining consortium being sold for pieces from the perspective of the employees just finding out.
3: A rebellious boy discovering the truth behind his people's religion and learning it isn't quite as fabricated as he'd believed.
4: A mutant child left isolated by her mother's death must fend for herself despite her village.
5: A self-aware power grid takes care of humanity.
6: A wizardry student discovers history as written wasn't exactly true when the spirit of the first major wizard corrupts him.
7: A guilt-ridden monk relives the past when his brethren were slaughtered even though that time is over.
8: The last survivor of a mining colony who was raised by aliens is restored to human hands.
9: A gun-toting outlaw who had been a slave sold as pleasure girl finds just what she deserves.
10: A woman struggles to meet the demands of a demon she's inherited from her father.
11: A young woman named a valkyrie has to find a dead hero and judge his right to go to Valhalla.
12: A slave bound only by his word has to find a way to get released without breaking his promise.
13: A fairy who loses his wings because he helps a human regains them by bringing the two people together.
14 and 15 are still to come :).
Note:
For those who don't know, Story A Day is one of the monthly challenges over at Forward Motion. Participants post raw versions of their stories in a password-protected section of the site for the fun of proving they put out 10, 15, 20, or 31 stories in a month. Oh, and the stories are supposed to come from a series of idea generators listed within the challenge.
I've written 13 of the 15 Story a Day short stories I have made as my more reasonable goal, and one might even be perfect for an upcoming anthology.
The proofread of Heart of the Crystal is moving along at a good pace with only the last 15k or so remaining. Regardless of my plans, if I were to get a full request, I could easily turn it around in less than a week, so there I'm feeling much more secure.
I'm also about a third into my latest novel critique and keeping up somewhat with short story edits.
Do I regret all the things I had to cull from my list? Of course. However, they weren't getting done any faster for all that they were screaming in my ears. Now their muffled pleas make sure I won't forget them while not interfering with what I need to get done.
So a much calmer, saner, me is now in command of this blog ;). Of course someday I really should make a novel-specific update, right?
Oh, and to give this post some meat, here are short summaries of my SAD stories. It should give some sense of the breadth and depth the SAD challenge offers and maybe a hint into why I try to do it every year. There's SF, fantasy, and contemporary fantasy all mixed in :).
1: A village witch takes in an injured stranger at the changing of the world from peasant to industry.
2: An alien mining consortium being sold for pieces from the perspective of the employees just finding out.
3: A rebellious boy discovering the truth behind his people's religion and learning it isn't quite as fabricated as he'd believed.
4: A mutant child left isolated by her mother's death must fend for herself despite her village.
5: A self-aware power grid takes care of humanity.
6: A wizardry student discovers history as written wasn't exactly true when the spirit of the first major wizard corrupts him.
7: A guilt-ridden monk relives the past when his brethren were slaughtered even though that time is over.
8: The last survivor of a mining colony who was raised by aliens is restored to human hands.
9: A gun-toting outlaw who had been a slave sold as pleasure girl finds just what she deserves.
10: A woman struggles to meet the demands of a demon she's inherited from her father.
11: A young woman named a valkyrie has to find a dead hero and judge his right to go to Valhalla.
12: A slave bound only by his word has to find a way to get released without breaking his promise.
13: A fairy who loses his wings because he helps a human regains them by bringing the two people together.
14 and 15 are still to come :).
Note:
For those who don't know, Story A Day is one of the monthly challenges over at Forward Motion. Participants post raw versions of their stories in a password-protected section of the site for the fun of proving they put out 10, 15, 20, or 31 stories in a month. Oh, and the stories are supposed to come from a series of idea generators listed within the challenge.
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Date: 2007-05-26 03:03 pm (UTC)I'm not so good at boiling stories down, but it's close enough.