Thursday, January 22, 2015

Throwing myself into editing Kepler Falling....

I've spent my free time editing Kepler Falling.  I've got about 162 pages rewritten,  This novel is going to be about 100,000 words/560 pages double spaced.  I decided to focus all my free time rewriting/revising the novel.  It was hard for me to work on editing Kepler Falling and then try and write a page in Ganbaatar.

The goal now is to have Kepler Falling edited by the end of April 2015.  I go back and continue writing Ganbaatar once I have the second rewrite of Kepler Falling done.  I'm also working on short stories I'd like to get through WUTA in the next six months, revised, and then submitted to various presses.

Those are my goals...

I've also vowed to catch up on my reading this year and get the hard copies I own read.  I'm also reading speculative fiction stories from Analog Magazine.  I need to catch up on them this weekend.  M-F are for writing.  Monday evening and Saturdays are for reading!

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Writing Resolutions for 2015

I started the New Year with good intentions.  I remind myself the way to hell is paved with good intentions.

The first thing was to write a page a day in the rough draft of a new historical/fantasy novel.  The second part was to revise a page a day in my first novel, Kepler Falling.

That project has taken over my free time.  I changed the POV from third person to first person.  I thought I'd take both stories and make them one long novels.  I'm now in the process of doing that.  But I've stopped work on my historical/fantasy novel.  I think I can get Kepler Falling rewritten in relatively short order.  I'll then be able to focus my full energy writing something once I get the second editing/revision done.

I'm also working on short stories.  I'm only attending WUTA once every two weeks.  So, my editing.revising of short stories will probably take the rest of the year.  That's fine, I can bring my revised version of Kepler Fallling to WUTA in 2016 and then submit it to Big Books the following year.  By that time I'll have Ganbaatar completed....