December Writing and January Goals
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osprey_archerI had three writing goals for December:
1. Publish The Wolf and the Girl. Completed! Yay!
2. Draft a story to submit to the anthology Silk and Steel. Did not complete this one. Am in fact rethinking the wisdom of trying to write for an anthology of “stories of high adventure” when action scenes are by far my weakest suit. Unless that’s plotting? Hmm. It might be plotting.
3. Continue revisions on Honeytrap. This aforementioned difficulty with plotting is why these are going… very… slowly. Possibly it was a bad idea to write a book with the premise “ American and Soviet agents fall in love after being assigned to investigate a case together” when I’ve never… written… an investigation before… *facepalm* BUT FINE, I’m stretching my writing skills, that’s good for me, right? In the long run?
In the short run, however, it’s SUPER frustrating. I would like to publish Honeytrap and also two novellas in 2020, and I’m a little afraid that if I just continue to beat my head against Honeytrap I will collapse in despair and publish nothing at all, so I’m very tempted to take a break and write a novella.
No, not one of the ones that I’ve mentioned before, hahaha, it’s like you think I’ve got an attention span. My shiny new idea is a post-Civil War mmf romance about two war comrades (Jack and Everett)! who were lovers! and then after the war Everett got married! and informed Jack that this was happening when Jack arrived for a visit and then Everett was like “By the way, I’m engaged! Her name is Sophie.”
Jack, who is definitely not in touch with his feelings, like, at all: “Oh.”
Then later on Jack kind of accidentally falls in love with Sophie, too, but that’s all right because no one will ever know, right? He can just quietly pine for them both until he dies and that is actually way more companionship than he expected in this life.
...and when I say “very tempted” and “shiny new idea” I definitely meant that I have 10,000 words of this. I’m hoping it will be thirty thousand-ish? I will TRY to restrain myself from info-dumping about complex marriage in the Oneida Community, but really, what else are you going to look at for a model if it’s 1872 and you’re trying to figure out polyamory? The Mormons? Probably the Mormons. I knew that I read that Laurel Thatcher Ulrich book about early Mormonism for a reason.
1. Publish The Wolf and the Girl. Completed! Yay!
2. Draft a story to submit to the anthology Silk and Steel. Did not complete this one. Am in fact rethinking the wisdom of trying to write for an anthology of “stories of high adventure” when action scenes are by far my weakest suit. Unless that’s plotting? Hmm. It might be plotting.
3. Continue revisions on Honeytrap. This aforementioned difficulty with plotting is why these are going… very… slowly. Possibly it was a bad idea to write a book with the premise “ American and Soviet agents fall in love after being assigned to investigate a case together” when I’ve never… written… an investigation before… *facepalm* BUT FINE, I’m stretching my writing skills, that’s good for me, right? In the long run?
In the short run, however, it’s SUPER frustrating. I would like to publish Honeytrap and also two novellas in 2020, and I’m a little afraid that if I just continue to beat my head against Honeytrap I will collapse in despair and publish nothing at all, so I’m very tempted to take a break and write a novella.
No, not one of the ones that I’ve mentioned before, hahaha, it’s like you think I’ve got an attention span. My shiny new idea is a post-Civil War mmf romance about two war comrades (Jack and Everett)! who were lovers! and then after the war Everett got married! and informed Jack that this was happening when Jack arrived for a visit and then Everett was like “By the way, I’m engaged! Her name is Sophie.”
Jack, who is definitely not in touch with his feelings, like, at all: “Oh.”
Then later on Jack kind of accidentally falls in love with Sophie, too, but that’s all right because no one will ever know, right? He can just quietly pine for them both until he dies and that is actually way more companionship than he expected in this life.
...and when I say “very tempted” and “shiny new idea” I definitely meant that I have 10,000 words of this. I’m hoping it will be thirty thousand-ish? I will TRY to restrain myself from info-dumping about complex marriage in the Oneida Community, but really, what else are you going to look at for a model if it’s 1872 and you’re trying to figure out polyamory? The Mormons? Probably the Mormons. I knew that I read that Laurel Thatcher Ulrich book about early Mormonism for a reason.
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Date: 2020-01-03 07:08 pm (UTC)ETA: I just finished The Wolf and the Girl and I adore it!
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Date: 2020-01-03 11:55 pm (UTC)I don't know if you ever do Amazon reviews, but if you do, could you leave one? Even just a short one would be a big help.
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:19 am (UTC)(I just noticed it doesn't seem to be appearing on your Amazon author page with the rest of your books)
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:27 am (UTC)I've added it to my author page now; it should show up within 24 hours.
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:48 am (UTC)Oh My God He Was Ready To Pine For The Rest Of His Life!!!!!
Why is this such narrative catnip to me
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:55 am (UTC)And the intensity and seeming hopelessness of the longing just makes it that much more delicious when the character is finally loved.
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Date: 2020-01-11 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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