{"id":4701,"date":"2011-04-04T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2011-04-04T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:45:08","slug":"4701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/4701\/","title":{"rendered":"Q1 report, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So in terms of writing, this was a pretty decent quarter.\u00a0 Nothing too prolific, but definitely making progress on my writing goals for 2011, which include:<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> finish at least two polished novels,
\n2) <\/strong>finish at least three new rough drafts,
\n3)<\/strong> start at least four major new projects.<\/p>\n

The spike in the graph from the beginning of the month is from the final revision of Bringing Stella Home<\/em>, which was pretty much just a final polish.\u00a0 After that was finished, I had a little difficulty picking up the next project, but once I did, I was able to be pretty consistent.<\/p>\n

In mid-January, I picked up Worlds Away from Home<\/em> and worked on that until the beginning of March.\u00a0 This was a pretty huge overhaul, especially for the end, but it still needs a lot<\/em> of work.\u00a0 Basically, this draft was just to get it to the point where I could send it out to my first readers without being eternally ashamed.<\/p>\n

After finishing WAFH 2.1 in the beginning of March, I launched right back into the sequel for BSH, Into the Nebulous Deep<\/em>.\u00a0 I figured it would be good to have the sequel in hand, in case I decided to go indie with BSH, as well as to practice writing sequels.<\/p>\n

All throughout March, the writing was surprisingly steady, but recently things have kind of gone off kilter.\u00a0 Maybe it’s all the increased distractions (job interviews, EPIK application, the TEFL course, other random crap), or maybe it’s just that I’ve become less disciplined, but I don’t feel like I’ve been writing very consistently in the last little while.\u00a0 And the graph doesn’t really show that, because I recently started a few other projects which have sort of taken the place of ITND.<\/p>\n

The first of these is currently untitled, but it takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of our world which I’ve code named “The Blight.” I don’t want to say much about it, but it’s REALLY REALLY REALLY cool…trust me.\u00a0 Think lone man, wandering the ruins of civilization two hundred years after its fall, trying to make a life for himself when everyone else around him dies at a ridiculously early age because of this blight that has swept across all of humanity.<\/p>\n

I’m having a TON of fun building this world, and the story is practically writing itself.\u00a0 In the interest of finishing what I start, though, I’m going to sideline it until ITND is completely finished (which should<\/em> be by the end of April, inshallah…).<\/p>\n

The other project is a novella version of BSH, basically taking just Stella’s viewpoints and telling the story of her capture and eventual ascension to the Hameji throne.\u00a0 This project shouldn’t be too hard–basically, I’m just frankensteining it from BSH, with a few tweaks.\u00a0 My main reason for writing it is to have a novella-length work that I can release as an ebook, possibly to generate interest in Bringing Stella Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, in March I released a couple of short stories as ebooks on Amazon.\u00a0 It’s a little early to gauge how well they’re doing, but I’m learning a lot from the experience, and the sales are gradually trickling in.\u00a0 Once I release a few more works and start promoting them, I expect the sales will grow.<\/p>\n

So in the last three months, I’ve finished one polished novel (Bringing Stella Home<\/em>), started two new projects (Sholpan<\/em> and untitled (the blight)<\/em>), and made progress on polishing Worlds Away from Home.<\/em> I wrote \/ revised through 170k words, about 30k to 50k of which were all new material.\u00a0 I also ventured into indie publishing and released two short stories on Amazon, which are earning me a buck or two each week.<\/p>\n

Overall, it hasn’t been as prolific as other quarters, but it’s not been too bad either.\u00a0 Now to finish ITND and make some progress on that freaking nashostomo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in terms of writing, this was a pretty decent quarter.\u00a0 Nothing too prolific, but definitely making progress on my writing goals for 2011, which include: 1) finish at least two polished novels, 2) finish at least three new rough drafts, 3) start at least four major new projects. The spike in the graph from… Continue reading Q1 report, 2011<\/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":[68,44,460,541,170],"tags":[89,515,46,529,545,527,107,383,156,154],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ds","category-hn","category-sholpan-novella","category-short-stories","tag-career-decisions","tag-ebooks","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-indie-publishing","tag-nanoshomo-2011","tag-novellas","tag-post-apocalypse","tag-quarterly-reports","tag-revising","tag-self-discipline","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7iXK-4701","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}