The rest of the projects

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:10:03 GMT

Previous posts covered my major projects, so this is the catch-all for everything that's left.

I write short fiction, but not a lot that's been published anywhere. The Kismet short stories were already mentioned in the Kismet post; there's a couple hundred thousand words of that, a lot of which is outdated now (and most of which was written ten years ago, which I'm sure shows; I haven't been able to bring myself to look at it and find out *g*). I have a short fiction page on my website, linking to the handful of stories that I did manage to sell over the years. At some point I think I'd like to start putting some of the unpublished stories on LJ/DW -- maybe have a regular story-a-week thing, or something like that. (Also, actually selling some more of these stories would be nice, too ...)

My main creative focus the last couple of years has been writing novels. I have about a million of them in progress, but I'm always very reluctant to talk about my projects while they're under development, so most of them are still in that twitchy, "I don't really want to talk about this project for fear of jinxing it" stage. My main project at the moment -- the one that I feel most confident about being able to clean up and submit for publication -- is an urban fantasy series. I have the first book finished (rough draft) and I'm about 2/3 done with the second book. I also have two YA novels currently at the rough draft stage. I started a series of second-world fantasy novels set in an Ice Age world for NaNoWriMo in 2010, but never actually finished any of them (although I've done a ton of world-building and I have about 60,000 words written, so that's a project that I definitely plan to pick up again). I've also got various Alaska-themed novels in the works, including a "what if Russia never sold Alaska to the U.S." alternate-history thing and a post-apocalypse novel or two. Oh, and a partly-finished novel set on a Montana ranch, "Leaving River Country", which is either a poignant tale of a woman coming to terms with her terminally ill husband's death, or a poignant novel about a woman coming to terms with her terminally ill husband's death while fighting dragons. Oddly enough it could go either way.

One project that has vanished from my website, which a couple of you might remember from roughly 2006/2007, is "Midnight Sun", a superhero webcomic set in Alaska. For awhile, I had about 20 pages up, but that's gone away because I don't really have time or inclination to get another comic underway while I'm working on Kismet, and I'm not entirely sure if that's the story I want to tell with those characters anyway. (The characters in "Midnight Sun" -- two feuding half-brothers, their mother, and the elder brother's ex-wife and children -- have been with me for over 20 years, and I've attempted to put them into a wide variety of stories over the years, of various genres: suspense, fantasy, sci-fi, and now superheroes. I really love them and I really want to tell their story eventually, but I just can't seem to get them to stick anywhere.)

That's everything I'm working on right now! Now: the future update schedule. :D Since I have a buffer of pages ready to go, I will definitely start updating Kismet: Sun-Cutter in April! And I may as well start the annotated Raven's Children project in April as well. It's been quite awhile since I had a regularly updating webcomic, but starting out, I'll try doing Kismet on Mondays and RC on Wednesdays. Debut dates:

Monday, April 2: Kismet
Wednesday, April 4: Raven's Children

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