Sunday, May 26, 2013

New writing routine

This year has been productive.  I've gotten several novellas and short stories written.  They are just rough drafts.  I've spent part of the spring revising Price of Command and Kepler Falling.  I started a second novel recently.  It's the second part of the Kepler Falling cycle.  I envision three related works. 

Part of this is marketing.  Part of this is necessity.  I'd like to write a stand alone work and move onto something else.  But in today's market, agents and publishers are looking for series to sell.  That is one of the reasons there are so many rotten fantasy novels.  People know a cash cow when they see it.  I've wavered between editing what I have and just writing the second novel and then move onto the third novel next year. 

I don't have time to do everything.  I broke down and decided I'd finish the second work in the Kepler Falling cycle this year.  I want to have at least 5 papers written each week.  If I write a page a day, I should have about 50,000 words by the end of year.  I can then move onto the final manuscript in 2014.  Once everything is written, I could then go back to editing and revising everything before I'd start seriously marketing my works.

So, I write at least one page each day Monday through Friday.  It's marked on my calendar.  It's also the only way I know to get a manuscript written in a timely manner.  5 pages a week for 50 weeks in 250 pages.  That's about 60,000 words.  The hard part will be all the editing and revising once everything is done... 

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