Updates on this and that
I didn't do Camp last year. I didn't do Camp in July, either. Last year was crazy (in good and in bad ways both). Stardust is exactly where it was a year ago -I think-, Berserk definitely is exactly where it was a year ago. Boydaughter, on the other hand, is an almost complete first draft (one major scene missing), at ~150.000 words. I know! Me!
I've signed up for Camp again with the same plan as last year: Finish Stardust and Berserk. The main difference is that I think I'll rewrite Berserk from scratch, maybe even give it a different title, I was never happy with the title. I'm going to try writing it in present tense because I have so many extended flashbacks, and I want to see if that makes it more clear. I'll have to see if the story agrees to being in present tense. The other reason I want to rewrite is that I think it's going to be less work and have a better flow than going over it line by line. I'll be sticking super extremely close to the content.
The berserk sequel is still bouncing around, too. Would be fun to write a girly girl for once. I love her love interest too. And it'll bring Skae and Tayis back to the village and there is good drama.
Some day....
Ok, what else... the Anatomy of a Threat sequel keeps buzzing around. I have a very rough outline of the whole thing. I'm trying something new where as I start having ideas I take very detailed notes, kind of like a synopsis, which is faster and less frustrating that trying to write it all out but at the same time much more of an outline than plot notes are. I'm thinking if I do that every time I think of something, I'll end up with a phase outline before I know it. Not that I was looking for that. But I might as well try if that works.
So yeah anyway the story I'm currently jotting down is not one of the ones planned for Camp. What else is new.
Speaking of new, I don't remember what it's like having a brand new idea and sitting down and starting to write it. Maybe that's ok. All the really early versions get kicked out anyway. I'm kinda miss that excitement though.
Bury Me has changed -that happened pretty much right away- to that Five-Twenty isn't aquired, he's hired. He's half human and humans generally have a pimp of sorts, except not for sexual things but for work. Some try freelance, but they get screwed over a lot. The usual way is that they get hired for a year and then return to their 'pimp' (I really need a better word). So, Five-Twenty gets hired for a year. That year gets a little crazy.
It's half sci-fi and half low fantasy. Sci fantasy is a thing, I've heard? It might be that.