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Writing update
2 years ago
So here's the general writing update I promised a little while back.
In case you missed it, I finally got around to finishing and posting the final chapter of "Conversion." It's been a long time coming.
I don't have much in the way of immediate plans for the setting. I've talked about doing a collected edition of the main Conversion story, but if I can be blunt for a moment I don't think there's any interest in one. I've got a half-finished story I'm stalled on, and a handful of varied ideas, but nothing concrete. Once I get another little side-project out of the way I'm going to try and focus on posting the Conversion-setting stories that got published some years back in ROAR and FANG.
Beyond that... I'm not sure. I need to do my revision of "Let Sleeping Foxes Lie," which looks more and more like a full rewrite every time I glance at it. Not just because I cringe at what my writing was like then, or because of the bits where it's unintentionally problematic, but more to bring it more in-line with other stories in the setting (like the short story I wrote, "The Kit Gloves Are Off," for Samhain Secrets: World Premiere).
I've got a story idea in the works for another setting I've been tinkering with, but I've learned my lesson about publicly posting chapters of unfinished stories. They just serve as uncomfortable reminders that I haven't finished the story yet, make it awkward to go back and edit earlier chapters when I need to do so, and they potentially make it difficult to get the longer stuff published. I'd rather post completed short stories than fragments of longer works. (If anyone's interested in beta reading unfinished stuff, let me know.)
Speaking of which, I might move "Song in the Dark" to Scraps for the indeterminate future. It's completely stalled, and while I've got one or two upcoming scenes in my head, I don't know where the larger story is going or how it's getting there. I'm a little concerned that I've kind of moved 'beyond' what I started writing the story for. I was coming from a very personal place and maybe time and experience have changed me in some way, or I hit some sort of catharsis in the last chapter I wrote (or both), and whatever drove me to write the story in the first place has faded. Maybe I'll do a reread of the story so far, replay the game, and see if that shakes anything loose. But I'll be honest, I'm not as hopeful as I'd like to be.
And with that taken care of, let me take a moment to remind you that I've got a blog with write-ups of my tabletop game sessions (including an ongoing Exalted game), as well as indexes of my published game writing and fiction. Note that I contributed opening fiction for some of the game books and it may be viewable for free in the previews, and the fiction index also includes links to a reading I did of "The Kit Gloves Are Off" for a podcast.
In case you missed it, I finally got around to finishing and posting the final chapter of "Conversion." It's been a long time coming.
I don't have much in the way of immediate plans for the setting. I've talked about doing a collected edition of the main Conversion story, but if I can be blunt for a moment I don't think there's any interest in one. I've got a half-finished story I'm stalled on, and a handful of varied ideas, but nothing concrete. Once I get another little side-project out of the way I'm going to try and focus on posting the Conversion-setting stories that got published some years back in ROAR and FANG.
Beyond that... I'm not sure. I need to do my revision of "Let Sleeping Foxes Lie," which looks more and more like a full rewrite every time I glance at it. Not just because I cringe at what my writing was like then, or because of the bits where it's unintentionally problematic, but more to bring it more in-line with other stories in the setting (like the short story I wrote, "The Kit Gloves Are Off," for Samhain Secrets: World Premiere).
I've got a story idea in the works for another setting I've been tinkering with, but I've learned my lesson about publicly posting chapters of unfinished stories. They just serve as uncomfortable reminders that I haven't finished the story yet, make it awkward to go back and edit earlier chapters when I need to do so, and they potentially make it difficult to get the longer stuff published. I'd rather post completed short stories than fragments of longer works. (If anyone's interested in beta reading unfinished stuff, let me know.)
Speaking of which, I might move "Song in the Dark" to Scraps for the indeterminate future. It's completely stalled, and while I've got one or two upcoming scenes in my head, I don't know where the larger story is going or how it's getting there. I'm a little concerned that I've kind of moved 'beyond' what I started writing the story for. I was coming from a very personal place and maybe time and experience have changed me in some way, or I hit some sort of catharsis in the last chapter I wrote (or both), and whatever drove me to write the story in the first place has faded. Maybe I'll do a reread of the story so far, replay the game, and see if that shakes anything loose. But I'll be honest, I'm not as hopeful as I'd like to be.
And with that taken care of, let me take a moment to remind you that I've got a blog with write-ups of my tabletop game sessions (including an ongoing Exalted game), as well as indexes of my published game writing and fiction. Note that I contributed opening fiction for some of the game books and it may be viewable for free in the previews, and the fiction index also includes links to a reading I did of "The Kit Gloves Are Off" for a podcast.
