More slaving away at editing Kepler Falling

I'm about halfway through editing Kepler Falling.  This is the fourth draft.  There are more to come.  This project won't rest until I'm old and gray.  Wait, I'm both!

Ugh.

Damned to the dogs of editing....

I spent the past several weeks editing the novella Ganbaatar and Nordic Sun.  Both manuscripts are done.  They need to be critiqued.  That will happen in the coming year.  This has become the season of revision/editing.  I'm currently working on Kepler Falling.  I'm editing that manuscript.  I don't know when I'll take to WUTA for critiques, though.

Kepler Falling should take me through May 2016.  That's a long time to revise/edit.  I'll hate myself by then.  Ugh.

New Years 2016 writing projects...

I've spent the past month writing.  I talked to my brother in Columbia, MO.  He's getting back to work in his sci-fi/noir detective novel.  He's only got it halfway revised.  He needs to write the rest.  I hope it's better than his first revision.  The technical aspects were great.  He's awesome with his descriptions and settings.  But I wanted to kill his characters.  They had little redeeming value.  Hopefully, that changed, lol...

I've been working on the rough draft of a new story.  It's speculative fiction.  Hard speculative fiction.  It's been a challenge to write.  I hope I can get 50,000 words out of it.  Right now, I'm at 30,000 words.  In involves a Scandinavian interstellar expedition to a world some 5,000 light years away.

The second story I outlined is a steampunk story set in South Africa at the time of the second Boer War.  I just wrote the beginning of it.  I'd like to get back to it when I get the speculative fiction novel done sometime this spring.  I also rewrote a satire/horror story piece that had one a prize in an anthology years ago.  Unfortunately, I lost the original work and had to rewrite it...

Blake