{"id":4495,"date":"2011-03-10T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:58:06","slug":"change-of-plans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/change-of-plans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was going to start <em>Edenfall<\/em> this week&#8230;but then, I realized I wanted to spend some more time in the universe of <em>Worlds Away from Home<\/em>, so I decided to work on <em>Into the Nebulous Deep<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n<p>ITND is a direct sequel to <em>Mercenary Savior<\/em>.\u00a0 Basically, it grew out of the realization that James&#8217;s story wasn&#8217;t anywhere near finished.\u00a0 Like WAFH, I&#8217;m trying to throw in some romantic elements&#8230;how well that works out remains to be seen.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll probably get it all wrong on the first draft, but make it shine in subsequent drafts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ITND-soundtrack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4500\" title=\"ITND soundtrack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ITND-soundtrack-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ITND-soundtrack-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ITND-soundtrack.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Anyhow, here&#8217;s the soundtrack I&#8217;ve put together.\u00a0 Most of the songs are from <a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\">ocremix<\/a>, but there&#8217;s also a good bit of U2 and a little Daft Punk, as well as a couple chiptunes that probably no one&#8217;s heard of.\u00a0 Man, I love chiptunes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to write through this rough draft as quickly as possible.\u00a0 Right now, I&#8217;ve got a deadline for April 16th, but I wonder if I can finish before that.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that has to do with my new goal of two novels per year; I want to train myself to write quickly, so I can be putting out more work.\u00a0 More than that, though, I want to try and tap into my creativity in a deeper way.\u00a0 If I can train myself to write quickly, I&#8217;ll be less prone to self-edit, which hopefully will help the creative part of my mind to flourish more freely.\u00a0 That was certainly the case with WAFH 2.1, and I want to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped ITND 1.0 back in December in order to work on <em>Bringing Stella Home<\/em>; not because it wasn&#8217;t working, but because BSH needed a little more work.\u00a0 After that, I ended up picking up WAFH.\u00a0 Now, it&#8217;s time to go back and finish this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was going to start Edenfall this week&#8230;but then, I realized I wanted to spend some more time in the universe of Worlds Away from Home, so I decided to work on Into the Nebulous Deep instead. 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