Plan of Action: Writing 2010
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jasonandrewMy head was spinning a bit today. I've been thinking about Dylan and the Dream Pirates and how to edit it properly.
I've also been thinking about my new project. Writing a novel takes a lot of planning. I wasn't sure how I wanted to proceed.
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insatia took me kindly by the hand and walked through the novel critique. We discussed her editing the book. She is usually my first editor and most of my major sales come after an edit from her. However, she never finished editing Dylan and the Dream Pirates due to real life.
And so, she is going to run through an editing pass of the book with the critique in mind with a due date of July 1st. After which, I will run through one more pass of edits and rewriting.
And so what will I be doing? Working on freelance material and writing the draft of my next book.
Reading through my notes, I have a lot of potential scenarios.
1. Mystical Rome. An alternate history novel with magic sounds fascinating. This would be really hard to write. Requires a butt ton of research on Roman history and manners.
2. The Doom That Fell Upon the Villa Diodat. An alternate history novel with lots of sex and magic during the summer Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein. I was going to try to write it for an anthology, but the scope grew more and more and the material turned much more naughty than planned. The bonus to this one is that I've been writing it. http://jasonbandrew.wikidot.com/the-thorn-tree-pact
3. Daughter of the Iron Queen. This is a concept I came up with involving the college age daughter of Persephone discovering that she has divine blood and her step-father Hades is pissed. I liked this idea and then I found out about Percy and the Olympian Series and backburnered this idea.
4. Untitled. This is a survivalist/end of the world novel. I have a couple of different ideas for this. I thought about doing a hundred years after zombies in an isolated town. I need to ponder this one.
5. The Highway West. This is the idea that would not die. Have I progressed enough that I can work on this theme>?
This winter, illness kicked my ass. I don't want lose more chances to shine. I missed some deadlines. Time to kick some ass.
I've also been thinking about my new project. Writing a novel takes a lot of planning. I wasn't sure how I wanted to proceed.
insatia took me kindly by the hand and walked through the novel critique. We discussed her editing the book. She is usually my first editor and most of my major sales come after an edit from her. However, she never finished editing Dylan and the Dream Pirates due to real life.And so, she is going to run through an editing pass of the book with the critique in mind with a due date of July 1st. After which, I will run through one more pass of edits and rewriting.
And so what will I be doing? Working on freelance material and writing the draft of my next book.
Reading through my notes, I have a lot of potential scenarios.
1. Mystical Rome. An alternate history novel with magic sounds fascinating. This would be really hard to write. Requires a butt ton of research on Roman history and manners.
2. The Doom That Fell Upon the Villa Diodat. An alternate history novel with lots of sex and magic during the summer Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein. I was going to try to write it for an anthology, but the scope grew more and more and the material turned much more naughty than planned. The bonus to this one is that I've been writing it. http://jasonbandrew.wikidot.com/the-thorn-tree-pact
3. Daughter of the Iron Queen. This is a concept I came up with involving the college age daughter of Persephone discovering that she has divine blood and her step-father Hades is pissed. I liked this idea and then I found out about Percy and the Olympian Series and backburnered this idea.
4. Untitled. This is a survivalist/end of the world novel. I have a couple of different ideas for this. I thought about doing a hundred years after zombies in an isolated town. I need to ponder this one.
5. The Highway West. This is the idea that would not die. Have I progressed enough that I can work on this theme>?
This winter, illness kicked my ass. I don't want lose more chances to shine. I missed some deadlines. Time to kick some ass.