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Update: Upcoming Novel and Burn Out?
2 years ago
So this is a short update on what's coming from me in the near future and where my head is at currently in terms of writing, my work and life more generally.
First of all, as the title of this post already spoiled, I wrote a novel! Which is to say, I wrote a 60k+ word trilogy of stories that form a singular narrative that if published together, would qualify as a decent length novel. (Part 1's sort of short, part 2 is close to the 'I'm Jade' story and part 3 is basically a short fantasy adventure novel all on its own.) And I wrote all of this over the coarse of 4 months, starting on New Years Day and ending on the 30th of April.
For those of you who don't know, that's allot of writing over a pretty short period of time given I was ALSO writing for various projects and jobs at the same time, like... An unhealthy amount of writing. Like an amount of writing that has taken allot out of me... And I'm still going.
I've already uploaded a few stories I've written since finishing the novel and I have multiple stories both written and planned that take place after it in the same continuity as well as just more silly TF stories and my work and my D&D game and... Its allot. Its allot allot.
I am... I don't know if I'm burning out, I feel pretty good and pretty inspired by further ideas, but I know, intellectually that I am working to hard and its going to come at a cost, I just don't know if it will be burning out for a couple of months after the fuel finally runs dry or just needing to slow down or... Who knows.
Anyway that all aside, I got some less doom and gloom news to share!
In a little less then a month, I'm going up to Canada to see Hazel (Unsavory Repute) and Syl (DrakenTenuem) and if all goes well... We have long term plans that should do allot to help make my life just a whole lot better.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, just wanted to let you all know roughly what's up with that 'big project' I've been hinting about for awhile and what to maybe just be prepared for in the near future.
OH RIGHT, FORGOT TO MENTION EARLIER!
The novel is pretty much finished, part 1 is fully edited and parts 2 and 3 have already had a basic editing pass done on them, at this point they are just waiting on Golden Gryphon who has very kindly offered to do nice covers for each of them! Given they are set within the shared world we created and feature her characters in both major and minor roles, it wouldn't feel write to put them up without her wonderful art work! However she is very busy, we have a number of on going series that she's still working on as well as a very special request I made of her awhile back so... Gonna be a little longer before you can read this whole mega story. But it will be worth the wait when Jade's gorgeous art is added to them!
First of all, as the title of this post already spoiled, I wrote a novel! Which is to say, I wrote a 60k+ word trilogy of stories that form a singular narrative that if published together, would qualify as a decent length novel. (Part 1's sort of short, part 2 is close to the 'I'm Jade' story and part 3 is basically a short fantasy adventure novel all on its own.) And I wrote all of this over the coarse of 4 months, starting on New Years Day and ending on the 30th of April.
For those of you who don't know, that's allot of writing over a pretty short period of time given I was ALSO writing for various projects and jobs at the same time, like... An unhealthy amount of writing. Like an amount of writing that has taken allot out of me... And I'm still going.
I've already uploaded a few stories I've written since finishing the novel and I have multiple stories both written and planned that take place after it in the same continuity as well as just more silly TF stories and my work and my D&D game and... Its allot. Its allot allot.
I am... I don't know if I'm burning out, I feel pretty good and pretty inspired by further ideas, but I know, intellectually that I am working to hard and its going to come at a cost, I just don't know if it will be burning out for a couple of months after the fuel finally runs dry or just needing to slow down or... Who knows.
Anyway that all aside, I got some less doom and gloom news to share!
In a little less then a month, I'm going up to Canada to see Hazel (Unsavory Repute) and Syl (DrakenTenuem) and if all goes well... We have long term plans that should do allot to help make my life just a whole lot better.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, just wanted to let you all know roughly what's up with that 'big project' I've been hinting about for awhile and what to maybe just be prepared for in the near future.
OH RIGHT, FORGOT TO MENTION EARLIER!
The novel is pretty much finished, part 1 is fully edited and parts 2 and 3 have already had a basic editing pass done on them, at this point they are just waiting on Golden Gryphon who has very kindly offered to do nice covers for each of them! Given they are set within the shared world we created and feature her characters in both major and minor roles, it wouldn't feel write to put them up without her wonderful art work! However she is very busy, we have a number of on going series that she's still working on as well as a very special request I made of her awhile back so... Gonna be a little longer before you can read this whole mega story. But it will be worth the wait when Jade's gorgeous art is added to them!
(Hell its about 11pm right now, I didn't sleep last night, I am barely keeping awake... And its taking ALLOT not to start in on a fresh story cus my brain is yelling at me to keep writing or else I am a bad person who isn't doing enough for her friends...)
Also, visiting loved ones is always super exciting! I hope those plans pay off~
And ya, ya the trip is honestly very needed and long, long wanted by all of us! So I'm really happy we are so close to finally just making it happen!