Just a few quick updates before I go to bed:<\/p>\n
My short story, Decision LZ150207<\/em>, is getting published in The Leading Edge<\/a>! <\/em>Hooray! \u00a0This will be my first publication credit. \u00a0It certainly won’t be my last!<\/p>\n As you can see from the progress bar to the right, I’ve started work on draft 2.2 of Ashes of the Starry Sea,<\/em> the novel that I finished back in April of 2008 (my first “finished” novel–and the project that spawned this blog). \u00a0My goal is to finish this draft by August 1st, 2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It is a beast of a novel–I’m predicting it will be at least 150,000 words. \u00a0The draft is currently at 158,000 words, but I’m going to have to add several scenes as well as vigorously trim out the bad writing.<\/p>\n And boy, is there a lot of bad writing in this draft! \u00a0I knew, when I wrote it, that I wasn’t that good, but holy cow! \u00a0Way too much introspection, way too much “tell”-iness, not nearly enough concrete details. \u00a0Too many adverbs, too much wordiness, especially in the scenes with the action. \u00a0This is going to be a deep revision.<\/p>\n BYU’s writing conference was a blast! \u00a0I’ll try to post more about it in the near future, hopefully tomorrow if I can get around to it. \u00a0The three editors who attended are open to submissions from the conference, and one of them prefers full manuscripts to partials, so on Saturday I printed up the full 2.0 draft of Genesis Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n Holding the full manuscript in my hands was surreal. \u00a0It’s one thing to write it out digitally and see it on your screen, but it is something else entirely to hold the tangible, physical thing in your hands. \u00a0I just…keep wanting to hold it. \u00a0It feels so real<\/em>.<\/p>\n But yeah, I’m kind of uneasy sending the full manuscript off to this editor, especially since she hasn’t asked me for it specifically (she just told all the conference-goers that she prefers full manuscripts). \u00a0I don’t want to get in trouble sending my full ms out to multiple places, so my game plan is to send this to her ASAP so it can get rejected within the next 1-4 months (what she claimed was her turnaround time).<\/p>\n Because of that, I’m sending her a draft which could be more polished, but oh well. \u00a0Anything <\/em>could be more polished–eventually, you just have to send your stuff out. \u00a0Besides, as pessimistic as this might sound, I do<\/em> think that my mss has a fighting chance. \u00a0We’ll see what comes of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a few quick updates before I go to bed: My short story, Decision LZ150207, is getting published in The Leading Edge! 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