{"id":2546,"date":"2010-08-10T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2010-08-10T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T07:15:24","slug":"end-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/end-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"End in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Things are winding down for my current work in progress, Worlds Away from Home<\/em>–or should I say winding up, since I’m just a chapter or two from the major climax?\u00a0 In any case, by the end of the week, inshallah, the rough draft will be finished. <crosses fingers><\/p>\n

It’s been tough, but I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll be able to salvage it, probably sometime after World Fantasy 2010.\u00a0 Drafting is not my strongest point; I’m much better at revision.\u00a0 My goal is to have a fully polished draft before the end of 2011.<\/p>\n

As far as the real world goes, things are starting to come together as well.\u00a0 I’m going home at the end of the month to get my teeth checked before my Mom’s insurance no longer covers me, and when I get back this temp agency should have a warehouse job lined up for a while, if I can’t find anything else.\u00a0 I’m cautiously optimistic that my sister will help me get a job at the residential treatment center where she works, which would be awesome, and of course there’s always the possibility that BYU will lift the hiring freeze (pretty soon, they’ll have to).<\/p>\n

So here’s my plan for the next few months: quit my job at the call center and go home in two weeks, then either work through the temp agency through September\/October or find something better.\u00a0 The wilderness job I was looking at has their training in November, so I’ll start the application process now in order to have that option in case everything else falls through.\u00a0 And if all else fails, I’ll go teach English in Asia for a year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I hope to stay in Utah until at least February, preferably until April.\u00a0 There are a lot of good resources here for writers, and I hope to take advantage of them.\u00a0 After I finish the rough draft of Worlds,<\/em> I will throw everything behind Mercenary Savior<\/em> and get it polished in time for World Fantasy 2010.<\/p>\n

And then?\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 I’d kind of like to try my hand at a fantasy novel; I’ve got the start of an idea for a magic system, and enough knowledge of Middle Eastern history to throw in a sweet medieval Arab flavor in the mix.<\/p>\n

In terms of the real world, my plan is to reteach myself Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus using some excellent resources my Dad is sending me, then go back to school in a hard science…probably.\u00a0 Still not sure what I want to do school-wise, but hopefully I’ll figure that out in the next year or two and head back soon.<\/p>\n

That is, if I don’t get published and launch my writing career by then.<\/p>\n

So that’s what my life is looking like right now.\u00a0 If you’re still reading and aren’t bored stiff (or if you just skipped to the end of the post, which is what I would have done), here’s an excellent song from one of my favorite Celtic bands, The Rogues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Things are winding down for my current work in progress, Worlds Away from Home–or should I say winding up, since I’m just a chapter or two from the major climax?\u00a0 In any case, by the end of the week, inshallah, the rough draft will be finished. <crosses fingers> It’s been tough, but I’m cautiously optimistic… Continue reading End in sight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,44],"tags":[301,437,89,88,223,42,46,231,259,30,436,387,423,599,312,397],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ds","tag-bagpipes","tag-byu","tag-career-decisions","tag-doubts-and-fears","tag-finishing","tag-frustrations","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-hope","tag-just-for-fun","tag-life-decisions","tag-math","tag-the-real-world","tag-wilderness","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-work","tag-world-fantasy-2010","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-F4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}