Mid-day and general report.
Feb. 3rd, 2012 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo, I started the day with a flash fiction story that is about super speed, appropriately enough. I wrote a thousand words of The Pleasure Craft Corsair, which is about a woman who sells herself into the service of an eccentric airship owner as a means of escaping from her life. The sexual themes are trans (male and female), D/s, and sadism. That's definitely something marketable but I'm not yet sure what I'm going to do with it, and it's not going to be done for a while... it's shaping up to be at least a novella.
I also wrote a vore story, for people who are into pixies being eaten. I post to that site on a semi-regular basis. Most of the stuff I write for it is stuff that actually doesn't ~*quite*~ hit my own buttons (at least not head on), but I've been trying to stretch myself this past month or so.
For this month my major goals are: build and maintain a lead on Tales of MU chapters, finish a draft of By Half Measures (not committing to publishing it this month because I think the initial manuscript is rather sterile and it might need a bigger second pass than I usually give things), and get geared back up on writing Dangerous Instrumentality. I have all the materials for it in my Google Docs account now, and just need to put it together and find the groove.
I do have a few smaller things cooking on the side (some of which could blow up into bigger things once some of the other big things are out of the way). One of the things I'm proud of is a eulogy of sorts for Hamlet by Horatio, entitled, "By The Card, or A Retort to a Certain Whoreson Scot". The working title was "Fuck You Very Much, Orson Scott Card." The new version is slightly more subtle. It started off as something I was writing to submit to Circlet Press. It might end up being that, but I'm not sure the finished product is going to fall into their milieu. Or that it will be finished in time for submission. I'm proud of the beginning but that's all I have so far, a beginning.
I am working on a lot of things at once here, which is something I tried to do when I first quit my day job to go full time. I think the mistake I made was trying to do everything as a serial, which is what I did since that's how Star Harbor Nights started and that's how Tales of MU found success. But not everything works as a serial, and more importantly, that's a lot of deadlines and not a lot of leeway. I can probably write a thousand words of The Pleasure Craft Corsair or By Half Measures every day while meeting my MU obligations, but not necessarily the same ones on the same days, and the thousand words I write won't necessarily be the final polished thousand words that come next in the story.
I've always known that I have it in me to be a very prolific writer. That's why I was sure I could handle all the serials... I know better now, but I also know more and more about how to unlock my potential, how to let the words flow and keep them flowing. Some of the stuff I'm writing has limited appeal and some of it just doesn't pan out, but I'm writing and I'm enjoying it.
I also wrote a vore story, for people who are into pixies being eaten. I post to that site on a semi-regular basis. Most of the stuff I write for it is stuff that actually doesn't ~*quite*~ hit my own buttons (at least not head on), but I've been trying to stretch myself this past month or so.
For this month my major goals are: build and maintain a lead on Tales of MU chapters, finish a draft of By Half Measures (not committing to publishing it this month because I think the initial manuscript is rather sterile and it might need a bigger second pass than I usually give things), and get geared back up on writing Dangerous Instrumentality. I have all the materials for it in my Google Docs account now, and just need to put it together and find the groove.
I do have a few smaller things cooking on the side (some of which could blow up into bigger things once some of the other big things are out of the way). One of the things I'm proud of is a eulogy of sorts for Hamlet by Horatio, entitled, "By The Card, or A Retort to a Certain Whoreson Scot". The working title was "Fuck You Very Much, Orson Scott Card." The new version is slightly more subtle. It started off as something I was writing to submit to Circlet Press. It might end up being that, but I'm not sure the finished product is going to fall into their milieu. Or that it will be finished in time for submission. I'm proud of the beginning but that's all I have so far, a beginning.
I am working on a lot of things at once here, which is something I tried to do when I first quit my day job to go full time. I think the mistake I made was trying to do everything as a serial, which is what I did since that's how Star Harbor Nights started and that's how Tales of MU found success. But not everything works as a serial, and more importantly, that's a lot of deadlines and not a lot of leeway. I can probably write a thousand words of The Pleasure Craft Corsair or By Half Measures every day while meeting my MU obligations, but not necessarily the same ones on the same days, and the thousand words I write won't necessarily be the final polished thousand words that come next in the story.
I've always known that I have it in me to be a very prolific writer. That's why I was sure I could handle all the serials... I know better now, but I also know more and more about how to unlock my potential, how to let the words flow and keep them flowing. Some of the stuff I'm writing has limited appeal and some of it just doesn't pan out, but I'm writing and I'm enjoying it.