You can read Parts I and II right here.
In other news, I've been working on the outline for a quartet of fantasy novels, in part based on a lot of the subplots and world building I did for my old unpublished novel. It's also based on a couple of scenes and character sketches I wrote almost ten years ago, about an archipelago of islands on an unnamed world, and a young woman who is charged with the task of looking for and then raising to adulthood the last living clutch of dragons in the islands (for reasons which cannot yet be revealed!). I spent the weekend outlining the first novel in detail. I'll probably start this series next year, after I've finished writing "The Ruins of Love" and it's completely edited and out on submission. This will be a long-term project - meaning, it's not going to be a couple of years. I expect the series to take at least a decade, if not longer, to write. There are, of course, other projects I'll work on in between each book in the series, including a novel or two, but they will all be shorter stand-alone works. This quartet is my Big Kahuna, so to speak.
As far as the Tacoma Steampunk novella trilogy goes - while I'd love to start writing it, the fact is that I can't until I've done more reading and research on the city and the Pacific Northwest of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Part of the problem is also that the one set of books I require the most - Herbert Hunt's three volume history of Tacoma - is about $300, and I just can't afford that right now. Maybe in a few years, when I've paid off some debts and have some extra cash from story sales, I'll be able to buy it. Until then, though, I can't justify the cost.
Tonight I meet up with someone who will also be starting a novel on October 1st, and we'll hopefully hammer out some kind of support group of sorts. Meaning: probably lots of beta-reading and critiquing, but also lots of mutual crying and drinking. For writers, it's nice to have beta readers if you can get them, but the crying/drinking type of support is downright indispensable. :D
In other news, I've been working on the outline for a quartet of fantasy novels, in part based on a lot of the subplots and world building I did for my old unpublished novel. It's also based on a couple of scenes and character sketches I wrote almost ten years ago, about an archipelago of islands on an unnamed world, and a young woman who is charged with the task of looking for and then raising to adulthood the last living clutch of dragons in the islands (for reasons which cannot yet be revealed!). I spent the weekend outlining the first novel in detail. I'll probably start this series next year, after I've finished writing "The Ruins of Love" and it's completely edited and out on submission. This will be a long-term project - meaning, it's not going to be a couple of years. I expect the series to take at least a decade, if not longer, to write. There are, of course, other projects I'll work on in between each book in the series, including a novel or two, but they will all be shorter stand-alone works. This quartet is my Big Kahuna, so to speak.
As far as the Tacoma Steampunk novella trilogy goes - while I'd love to start writing it, the fact is that I can't until I've done more reading and research on the city and the Pacific Northwest of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Part of the problem is also that the one set of books I require the most - Herbert Hunt's three volume history of Tacoma - is about $300, and I just can't afford that right now. Maybe in a few years, when I've paid off some debts and have some extra cash from story sales, I'll be able to buy it. Until then, though, I can't justify the cost.
Tonight I meet up with someone who will also be starting a novel on October 1st, and we'll hopefully hammer out some kind of support group of sorts. Meaning: probably lots of beta-reading and critiquing, but also lots of mutual crying and drinking. For writers, it's nice to have beta readers if you can get them, but the crying/drinking type of support is downright indispensable. :D
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