{"id":7436,"date":"2012-06-19T03:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:04:14","slug":"quick-update-yes-im-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quick-update-yes-im-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick update (yes, I&#8217;m still alive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an\u00a0<em>awesome<\/em> weekend. \u00a0Saw the most amazing cave complex of my life, toured Kakheti o a TLG excursion, met a bunch of really cool people, and hung out with them in Tbilisi for a while. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to save all that for another blog post, though, probably in a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that the judging was finished for the first quarter Writers of the Future contest over the weekend, and all the finalists were contacted. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t get a call or an email, so I&#8217;m probably not a finalist this time around. \u00a0Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m very much looking forward to getting the results so that I can finally publish this dang story! \u00a0It&#8217;s been\u00a0<em>way<\/em> too long since I published anything, and while there have been reasons for that (moving to another country, starting a second career), I really need to be publishing new stuff more regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I want to publish before the end of the year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First and second parts of\u00a0<strong>Star Wanderers<\/strong> (my Writers of the Future story). \u00a0This is a novel I plan to publish in four parts, with each part being its own self-contained story. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6880\">I blogged about it<\/a> a while ago&#8230;more on that later.<\/li>\n<li>A companion novella to\u00a0<strong>Desert Stars<\/strong>. \u00a0This is still just in the planning stages, but there&#8217;s plenty of backstory to draw from, and I really would like to revisit that corner of the Gaia Nova universe.<\/li>\n<li>Either\u00a0<strong>Heart of the Nebula<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>Stars of Blood and Glory<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last one is going to be an ambitious undertaking, since both of them are still in the alpha-reading phases right now. \u00a0Also, I don&#8217;t now whether I&#8217;ll have regular access to a reliable source of electricity in the fall, which will further complicate things. \u00a0However, I do believe it&#8217;s possible to put out one or the other before the end of the year, though probably not both.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is still up in the air, though, and I can&#8217;t promise anything except to get\u00a0<strong>Star Wanderers: Part I<\/strong> up as soon as the results come in for the Writers of the Future contest. \u00a0It&#8217;s already formatted and ready to go, just need to fine tune the blurb and hit &#8220;publish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And of course, before I move on to any of these other projects, I have to finish the one I&#8217;m currently working on. \u00a0So so long! \u00a0I&#8217;m off to the library to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had an\u00a0awesome weekend. \u00a0Saw the most amazing cave complex of my life, toured Kakheti o a TLG excursion, met a bunch of really cool people, and hung out with them in Tbilisi for a while. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to save all that for another blog post, though, probably in a couple of days. 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