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alexandraerin...but one of my goals for January is to finish the third MU Omnibus. I'm about halfway finished now, by my rough estimation. I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to keep the boundary between book 8 and 9 where it is right now. Part of that is going to depend on where I find the end point for book 9. At the rate that it's been going, the entire first volume is going to end up filling six omnibuses. Given that it represents about five years of my life's work, I suppose that's about right.
Before the move, I sometimes tried to create a pattern of one MU e-book a month, alternating Omnibus and annotated individual one. That never lasted very long because I wasn't spending much more than two months in one place. Now that I'm in a stable situation, I'm examining the idea. I think the weak point in it is the individual books. It's fairly easy for me to predict roughly how long it will take to compile a big chunk of chapters. It's less easy for me to say how long it will take to provide commentary for a certain number of chapters. Some chapters are harder than others. Some things are harder to face up to or put into words.
Also, transcribing and re-formatting chapters is something that I can do in small chunks. It's not like trying to write a tiny bit of a story every day. Flow is immediate. There's no time lost to creative engagement. Writing commentary is very much creative work. Trying to do one chapter of commentary a day five days a week is a lot more like trying to write a story in half hour a day, in terms of results.
So I think what I'm going to do is rather than switching off between the Omnibus and the commentary, I'll continue to do one Omnibus a month at least until volume 1 is available in its entirety.
I'm not putting off the commentary-writing until Omnibus VI comes out, though. I'm just not going to be treating it like it's the same type of work that compiling the Omnibus is, just because the end product (a MU e-book) is similar. Instead, I'm going to treat it as creative work, and like my other writing projects, I'll do it as I can give it due time and attention.
Before the move, I sometimes tried to create a pattern of one MU e-book a month, alternating Omnibus and annotated individual one. That never lasted very long because I wasn't spending much more than two months in one place. Now that I'm in a stable situation, I'm examining the idea. I think the weak point in it is the individual books. It's fairly easy for me to predict roughly how long it will take to compile a big chunk of chapters. It's less easy for me to say how long it will take to provide commentary for a certain number of chapters. Some chapters are harder than others. Some things are harder to face up to or put into words.
Also, transcribing and re-formatting chapters is something that I can do in small chunks. It's not like trying to write a tiny bit of a story every day. Flow is immediate. There's no time lost to creative engagement. Writing commentary is very much creative work. Trying to do one chapter of commentary a day five days a week is a lot more like trying to write a story in half hour a day, in terms of results.
So I think what I'm going to do is rather than switching off between the Omnibus and the commentary, I'll continue to do one Omnibus a month at least until volume 1 is available in its entirety.
I'm not putting off the commentary-writing until Omnibus VI comes out, though. I'm just not going to be treating it like it's the same type of work that compiling the Omnibus is, just because the end product (a MU e-book) is similar. Instead, I'm going to treat it as creative work, and like my other writing projects, I'll do it as I can give it due time and attention.