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kateelliott) wrote2011-01-01 02:47 pm
kateelliott) wrote2011-01-01 02:47 pm
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2011: Looking forward at work
Hope springs eternal. Mostly.
If I had infinite energy and time, here’s what I would accomplish in 2011:
Spiritwalker:
-- Revise Cold Fire. Followed by copy edits and page proofs. Publication in September (mass market of Cold Magic available in August).
-- Draft Cold Steel (and preferably a first draft shorter than Cold Fire's first draft).
-- Make a decent North American/Caribbean Basin map for this Earth.
-- Write a novelette from the point of view of Bee (which would need illustrations).
-- Write up excerpts of journal entries by Daniel Hassi Barahal.
Crossroads:
-- Finish a draft of Crossroads 4
(I’ve written 45,000 words, but the story needs some re-visioning because the 45,000 words I’ve written constitute perhaps one quarter of the story and possibly less, so obviously I need to rethink how I’m approaching it)
Crown of Stars Universe proposal:
Write up a proposal for a short trilogy (<==don’t laugh!) set in the Crown of Stars universe, possibly with a YA focus, set 450 years after the events of the septology.
Jaran Universe:
Sketch out more of the “political” (as opposed to emotional) plot for Jaran #5 in preparation for actually writing it.
Research: A ton.
Read more fiction, by wasting less time online.
Posts:
I have a set of posts I’m working on, surrounding issues of craft and the writing process, that I would like to complete and post throughout the first half of the year together with, I hope, a dedicated blog that will be mirrored on lj.
Travel to Spain in October (for research for Cold Steel).
(I had hoped to make a short trip to the Dominican Republic this month--January--but other necessary things have eaten my time and $$ and so this will not, unfortunately, be happening.)
That’s all, but only because I’m not even touching on any potential new projects, of which there are always some churning in my head, including a side project set in the Cold Magic universe.
The chances I can manage all the above are, as we say, slim to none.
If I had infinite energy and time, here’s what I would accomplish in 2011:
Spiritwalker:
-- Revise Cold Fire. Followed by copy edits and page proofs. Publication in September (mass market of Cold Magic available in August).
-- Draft Cold Steel (and preferably a first draft shorter than Cold Fire's first draft).
-- Make a decent North American/Caribbean Basin map for this Earth.
-- Write a novelette from the point of view of Bee (which would need illustrations).
-- Write up excerpts of journal entries by Daniel Hassi Barahal.
Crossroads:
-- Finish a draft of Crossroads 4
(I’ve written 45,000 words, but the story needs some re-visioning because the 45,000 words I’ve written constitute perhaps one quarter of the story and possibly less, so obviously I need to rethink how I’m approaching it)
Crown of Stars Universe proposal:
Write up a proposal for a short trilogy (<==don’t laugh!) set in the Crown of Stars universe, possibly with a YA focus, set 450 years after the events of the septology.
Jaran Universe:
Sketch out more of the “political” (as opposed to emotional) plot for Jaran #5 in preparation for actually writing it.
Research: A ton.
Read more fiction, by wasting less time online.
Posts:
I have a set of posts I’m working on, surrounding issues of craft and the writing process, that I would like to complete and post throughout the first half of the year together with, I hope, a dedicated blog that will be mirrored on lj.
Travel to Spain in October (for research for Cold Steel).
(I had hoped to make a short trip to the Dominican Republic this month--January--but other necessary things have eaten my time and $$ and so this will not, unfortunately, be happening.)
That’s all, but only because I’m not even touching on any potential new projects, of which there are always some churning in my head, including a side project set in the Cold Magic universe.
The chances I can manage all the above are, as we say, slim to none.