August Writing and September Goals
Aug. 31st, 2020 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerObviously the MOST important writing news from August is that Honeytrap is available for preorder! It releases THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. (Or simply tomorrow, depending on your time zone and how Amazon is feeling.)
In terms of actual things that I got written this month…. eeeeehhhh. The thing I really need to finish is the short story for the m/m magical pets anthology, and it has not been finished. It has been started, though! That’s an improvement!
I got a few thousand more words on the 1920s bohemian New York m/m novella before deciding that I needed to do more research and also visit New York City, so that one has been set aside until such time as visiting places is possible. (This may or may not be a cunning plan to count a trip to NYC as a business expense on my taxes. The part about more research is definitely true, though.)
I also wrote about 20,000 words on the post-World War I story about the boarding school friends who reconnect after losing various limbs during the war (corporately they are down to five by the time the story begins). But this one ALSO needs more research, as “Lord Chatterley has a motorized wheelchair in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was published in 1928!” is perhaps not a good enough reason to give a protagonist a motorized wheelchair in 1918, even if I specify that it is an extremely expensive prototype model that breaks at the drop of hat.
In fact, most of the story ideas floating around in my head suffer from this “needs more research” problem. The one outlier (which therefore probably ought to be my next project) is Harriet Peabody, an m/f romance set after the Civil War (it occurs to me that it might be easier to write blurbs if I wrote books that were actually set during wars). I have a draft of this from 2018, which I have a suspicion is execrable, but there’s really no way to know except opening the document and rereading it.
In terms of actual things that I got written this month…. eeeeehhhh. The thing I really need to finish is the short story for the m/m magical pets anthology, and it has not been finished. It has been started, though! That’s an improvement!
I got a few thousand more words on the 1920s bohemian New York m/m novella before deciding that I needed to do more research and also visit New York City, so that one has been set aside until such time as visiting places is possible. (This may or may not be a cunning plan to count a trip to NYC as a business expense on my taxes. The part about more research is definitely true, though.)
I also wrote about 20,000 words on the post-World War I story about the boarding school friends who reconnect after losing various limbs during the war (corporately they are down to five by the time the story begins). But this one ALSO needs more research, as “Lord Chatterley has a motorized wheelchair in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was published in 1928!” is perhaps not a good enough reason to give a protagonist a motorized wheelchair in 1918, even if I specify that it is an extremely expensive prototype model that breaks at the drop of hat.
In fact, most of the story ideas floating around in my head suffer from this “needs more research” problem. The one outlier (which therefore probably ought to be my next project) is Harriet Peabody, an m/f romance set after the Civil War (it occurs to me that it might be easier to write blurbs if I wrote books that were actually set during wars). I have a draft of this from 2018, which I have a suspicion is execrable, but there’s really no way to know except opening the document and rereading it.
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Date: 2020-08-31 03:32 pm (UTC)Hopefully travel will become possible within the next 400 days....
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Date: 2020-08-31 07:11 pm (UTC)Hopefully travel will become possible within the next 400 days....
THE DREAM TBH. I'm so glad that I visited Massachusetts last fall (can you believe that was really less than a year ago?); I had thought about putting off the trip till spring, and well, we know how THAT would have worked out.