{"id":4156,"date":"2011-02-08T01:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2011-02-08T01:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:31:34","slug":"deceptively-productive-day-and-other-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/deceptively-productive-day-and-other-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptively productive day and other updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Man, I revised through about 4k words today…and wrote a 1.5k outline for Edenfall<\/em> to boot.\u00a0 Not bad, considering how much time I spent putzing around reading publishing blogs and job hunting on craigslist.<\/p>\n

Things are going well with WAFH; after a slight dropoff at the end of last week, I’m rebuilding momentum rather quickly.\u00a0 But then again, I’m currently at an easy part in the draft.\u00a0 Pretty soon, I’ll have to throw everything out and start from scratch.<\/p>\n

Job hunting sucks…but what else is new?\u00a0 I signed up for an online TEFL certification course, to the tune of $250 (youch!).\u00a0 Hopefully, that will help land me a good teaching job in an advanced pay grade overseas.<\/p>\n

I swear, the job market here in the states is so bad that I don’t see any other way around it but to leave the country.\u00a0 Maybe if I was a CS major, or had no qualms selling people crap they didn’t need, or was willing to wipe up elderly people’s butts after they’ve defecated all over the place…no thank you.\u00a0 In any case, teaching English is an adventure, and I very much look forward to it.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, there are a few local graveyard job openings that might allow me to write on the side while I babysit a desk.\u00a0 If those don’t work out, hopefully I’ll find something else before my checking account dries up sometime in March.<\/p>\n

I’m getting really excited for Edenfall<\/em>.\u00a0 Last night, as I was falling asleep, I ran through the basic storyline in my head.\u00a0 Fortunately, I remembered it well enough in the morning to write it all down.\u00a0 It’s going to be awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m also starting to rethink my philosophy on writing direct sequels.\u00a0 I used to follow Sanderson’s line of thought; it doesn’t make sense to finish the series, because if a publisher rejects the first book, they won’t be interested in the others.\u00a0 However, with ebooks and self publishing becoming more accessible and lucrative, the ability to put out a complete trilogy all at once is a great strength.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking very seriously about putting Genesis Earth<\/em> out there, but it’s the first book in a trilogy, and it would probably boost sales of all three if I could put them all at once.\u00a0 Aneeka gave me a good suggestion today: put out the first book for free, while selling the other two at a competitive price.\u00a0 Sadly, it will probably be a year or two before the others are ready…but my writing skills are constantly improving, so maybe I’ll be able to produce them a little faster.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to a very interesting post<\/a> I read on Dean Wesley Smith’s blog yesterday about writing speed.\u00a0 Thus far, I’ve been shooting to produce one polished book per year, but after reading that post, I wonder if I should shoot for more.\u00a0 Can I write two books a year and still maintain a high level of quality?\u00a0 I’m not so sure; GE and BSH both required five rewrites before I got them fully polished, and Mr. Smith’s numbers don’t seem to take the revision process into account.<\/p>\n

This year, though, I’m hoping to produce two polished books: Bringing Stella Home<\/em>, which I’ve already finished, and Worlds Away from Home<\/em>, which is my current WIP.\u00a0 I’m only on the second draft, and there are tons of story issues, but I’m working through them fairly quickly.\u00a0 I’ll probably put in another two or three rewrites before the end of the year, and still have time to finish a couple of other rough drafts–Edenfall<\/em> and The Stars of Redemption<\/em> (third book), potentially.<\/p>\n

Of course, if I land a job, that might throw a kink into things–as will traveling overseas.\u00a0 But as with all things, I’ll take those eventualities as they come.<\/p>\n

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Man, I revised through about 4k words today…and wrote a 1.5k outline for Edenfall to boot.\u00a0 Not bad, considering how much time I spent putzing around reading publishing blogs and job hunting on craigslist. Things are going well with WAFH; after a slight dropoff at the end of last week, I’m rebuilding momentum rather quickly.\u00a0… Continue reading Deceptively productive day and other updates<\/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":[44,509,32],"tags":[89,515,147,440,495,312],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","category-edenfall","category-ge","tag-career-decisions","tag-ebooks","tag-momentum","tag-sequels","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-work","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-152","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}