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Right. New year. Symbolic fresh start.
This is in theory a chronicle of my writing career, such as it currently is. So, you might ask, what am I working on?
That's both simple and complicated. I am about 52% of the way through Draft Zero of Eyes of Stone, and ideas for what to include next keep tumbling out, so that's a continuing project. But one of the goals for this year is to be more free-flowing with the submissions, which means editing some of the short works I've completed in the last year and doing a few new short pieces. One piece is currently off with a friend of a friend and an Actual Published Novelist, another is about to be dusted off and given a run through the Belt Sander. I have two or three ideas for short pieces bouncing around in my head, as well; it's funny how a well written short story collection can cause that effect.
Then there's Done with Mirrors, which needs to be pounded mercilessly with a hammer until all the first novel goop is squeezed out and its prose is less like it was written by me when I was 23. There are elements of fanboyism present there, for various authors I'd both be flattered and horrified to be compared to, and some of that can't be helped (a rant on the Fanboy Author is up and coming this year, I promise you), but there are cartoonish attempts at others' styles clogging up some stylistic elements that need to just be shed. It's nice to see this relic of me finding my voice, but I want to get it more firmly situated before it goes out to agents again; and go out to agents it shall, as this is one of my primary projects for this year.
In short, it is going to be a very busy year.
Bring it on.
This is in theory a chronicle of my writing career, such as it currently is. So, you might ask, what am I working on?
That's both simple and complicated. I am about 52% of the way through Draft Zero of Eyes of Stone, and ideas for what to include next keep tumbling out, so that's a continuing project. But one of the goals for this year is to be more free-flowing with the submissions, which means editing some of the short works I've completed in the last year and doing a few new short pieces. One piece is currently off with a friend of a friend and an Actual Published Novelist, another is about to be dusted off and given a run through the Belt Sander. I have two or three ideas for short pieces bouncing around in my head, as well; it's funny how a well written short story collection can cause that effect.
Then there's Done with Mirrors, which needs to be pounded mercilessly with a hammer until all the first novel goop is squeezed out and its prose is less like it was written by me when I was 23. There are elements of fanboyism present there, for various authors I'd both be flattered and horrified to be compared to, and some of that can't be helped (a rant on the Fanboy Author is up and coming this year, I promise you), but there are cartoonish attempts at others' styles clogging up some stylistic elements that need to just be shed. It's nice to see this relic of me finding my voice, but I want to get it more firmly situated before it goes out to agents again; and go out to agents it shall, as this is one of my primary projects for this year.
In short, it is going to be a very busy year.
Bring it on.
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