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Finished the latest
7 years ago
Well, finished is a bit strong of a word.
I got the draft done. Still waiting on the cover, and going to try something a little different this time for beta reads.
Suppose I should back up a bit and say that the last series (in which I wrote two books) is shelved. After consulting with beta readers and doing some hard thinking, I've decided to let Otherworld sit for a while. I need to do some serious world building. Right now it sits uncomfortably on the fence between epic fantasy and sword and sorcery. Since the thing people mentioned most as being a problem is the character interaction, I'm going to let the books rest until I can look at them with fresh eyes and tweak things. While that's happening I'll build out the world.
So instead I decided to make my start in a slightly different genre, litRPG. Since this journal is somewhat divorced from my authorial efforts, I'll go ahead and detail why for the curious - and to remind myself later on.
LitRPG is a fairly new genre, it's booming, the audience is HUNGRY, and the overall quality of writer in the genre, with notable exceptions of course, is fairly low. The bar hasn't been set so high that I have to really wonder if my wordsmithing is up to the task. Presuming I can gain a following for my work there, I can probably expand it further when I later make a serious go at epic fantasy.
To that end I've written the first book and have begun outlining work on the second. Once I get my mailing list set up I'll begin parceling the samples out on a few sites: wattpad and royal road. My hope is that people will be interested enough to follow the sample back to my author webpage, and from THERE they'll have an option to join the mailing list and, at least initially, my beta read group.
That's the plan anyway. We'll see how it holds up.
I got the draft done. Still waiting on the cover, and going to try something a little different this time for beta reads.
Suppose I should back up a bit and say that the last series (in which I wrote two books) is shelved. After consulting with beta readers and doing some hard thinking, I've decided to let Otherworld sit for a while. I need to do some serious world building. Right now it sits uncomfortably on the fence between epic fantasy and sword and sorcery. Since the thing people mentioned most as being a problem is the character interaction, I'm going to let the books rest until I can look at them with fresh eyes and tweak things. While that's happening I'll build out the world.
So instead I decided to make my start in a slightly different genre, litRPG. Since this journal is somewhat divorced from my authorial efforts, I'll go ahead and detail why for the curious - and to remind myself later on.
LitRPG is a fairly new genre, it's booming, the audience is HUNGRY, and the overall quality of writer in the genre, with notable exceptions of course, is fairly low. The bar hasn't been set so high that I have to really wonder if my wordsmithing is up to the task. Presuming I can gain a following for my work there, I can probably expand it further when I later make a serious go at epic fantasy.
To that end I've written the first book and have begun outlining work on the second. Once I get my mailing list set up I'll begin parceling the samples out on a few sites: wattpad and royal road. My hope is that people will be interested enough to follow the sample back to my author webpage, and from THERE they'll have an option to join the mailing list and, at least initially, my beta read group.
That's the plan anyway. We'll see how it holds up.
