Milestone reached on my story "A Far Sun"
I've been gone from here so long, I'm sure everyone thought I must be dead. But no, I'm just busy.
I have just reached the end of the second volume (er, book?) in my story A Far Sun. I split the story in two when it became very clear it wasn't going to end anywhere near the vicinity of 100K words: Book 1 is 117K, and just yesterday I finished book 2, at just over 97K. It's a good story, with good characters, and I'm loving it. But I'm going to put it down for a while.
Instead, I have about 21K words (so far) written in another story I've been messing with, so I'm going to work on that. A while. It may in fact be more publisher-friendly than my other story. But it seems I always say that about the stuff I write. Regardless, I'm going to start shopping around for an agent/publisher for the work, though I have no idea where to begin. But I'll figure it out.
Some friends are suggesting I podcast the story, but although I'm not a bad reader (and I have read the entire story aloud to my wife) I am not entirely comfortable doing voices. Sure, I could get others to read the parts, but who has time to edit the audio? I surely do not.
My artist-stepdaughter Em now lives with us, but she's still in school and busy as hell. Well, right now she's between semesters, so who knows when (or even if) the story will ever be turned into the graphic novel I once envisioned. Truly, condensing the story into a script suitable for illustrating will be challenging enough, by itself. Who has the time? (Sense a recurring theme, here?)
Podcasting the story myself seems the most efficacious direction, at the moment. Now, if I could just figure out how to do justice to all my female characters' voices, I think it'll be OK. But what I'd really like to do is publish the work(s), mainly so I could justify all that time I'm going to spend writing the 3rd and concluding book in the series. Yeah, I guess it IS a series. Of course, I have already spent time plotting out the next storyline in my invented world. This new storyline involves the children of my current story's heroes, and it attempts to answer the question: "What next?" Who knows when I'll get around to writing it. Ideas, it seems, are not in short supply these days.
On a separate but related note, we saw Avatar on Christmas eve. See it in 3D if you can! Both my wife and stepdaughter have commented on the similarities between James Cameron's story and mine. Yeah, his story involved evil white people with technology, pitted against simple, gentle native people who don't exactly want their interference. Of course, where Cameron's natives are 10' tall and blue, mine are small and orange. (No, my natives are not oompa-loompas. Frankly, that never even crossed my mind when visualizing them. My natives really are normal sized people, just with oddly colored skin.)
Well, I may post parts of my newly-current work Rider on the Storm (the working title), but I don't really plan to publish it online. There has to be an outlet for this type of story, so I'm just going to work on it awhile and see where it goes.
I have just reached the end of the second volume (er, book?) in my story A Far Sun. I split the story in two when it became very clear it wasn't going to end anywhere near the vicinity of 100K words: Book 1 is 117K, and just yesterday I finished book 2, at just over 97K. It's a good story, with good characters, and I'm loving it. But I'm going to put it down for a while.
Instead, I have about 21K words (so far) written in another story I've been messing with, so I'm going to work on that. A while. It may in fact be more publisher-friendly than my other story. But it seems I always say that about the stuff I write. Regardless, I'm going to start shopping around for an agent/publisher for the work, though I have no idea where to begin. But I'll figure it out.
Some friends are suggesting I podcast the story, but although I'm not a bad reader (and I have read the entire story aloud to my wife) I am not entirely comfortable doing voices. Sure, I could get others to read the parts, but who has time to edit the audio? I surely do not.
My artist-stepdaughter Em now lives with us, but she's still in school and busy as hell. Well, right now she's between semesters, so who knows when (or even if) the story will ever be turned into the graphic novel I once envisioned. Truly, condensing the story into a script suitable for illustrating will be challenging enough, by itself. Who has the time? (Sense a recurring theme, here?)
Podcasting the story myself seems the most efficacious direction, at the moment. Now, if I could just figure out how to do justice to all my female characters' voices, I think it'll be OK. But what I'd really like to do is publish the work(s), mainly so I could justify all that time I'm going to spend writing the 3rd and concluding book in the series. Yeah, I guess it IS a series. Of course, I have already spent time plotting out the next storyline in my invented world. This new storyline involves the children of my current story's heroes, and it attempts to answer the question: "What next?" Who knows when I'll get around to writing it. Ideas, it seems, are not in short supply these days.
On a separate but related note, we saw Avatar on Christmas eve. See it in 3D if you can! Both my wife and stepdaughter have commented on the similarities between James Cameron's story and mine. Yeah, his story involved evil white people with technology, pitted against simple, gentle native people who don't exactly want their interference. Of course, where Cameron's natives are 10' tall and blue, mine are small and orange. (No, my natives are not oompa-loompas. Frankly, that never even crossed my mind when visualizing them. My natives really are normal sized people, just with oddly colored skin.)
Well, I may post parts of my newly-current work Rider on the Storm (the working title), but I don't really plan to publish it online. There has to be an outlet for this type of story, so I'm just going to work on it awhile and see where it goes.