{"id":8146,"date":"2013-03-07T02:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T09:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2013-03-07T02:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T09:44:27","slug":"well-that-was-a-quick-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/well-that-was-a-quick-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was a quick revision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SW-V<\/a>First of all, sorry for forgetting to do a Trope Tuesday post (again!).\u00a0 I guess I’m really flaky about doing those.\u00a0 Oh well–better to be flaky about blogging than flaky about writing, right?<\/p>\n

In fact, the reason I didn’t write-up the post was because I was busy doing a 2.0 revision pass for Star Wanderers: Dreamweaver.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is the novella that retells the events of Outworlder<\/a>,<\/strong> but from Noemi’s point of view.\u00a0 I hadn’t looked at it in the eight months since I wrote it, but sometime over the summer I gave it to Laura<\/a> to alpha read, and she just got back with her comments a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n

Well.\u00a0 Reading through those comments was simultaneously the most excruciating and most invigorating thing I’ve been through in a while.\u00a0 I’ve changed a lot since I wrote the first draft, and a lot of things about it are horribly embarrassing, but the story … the story is actually pretty solid.\u00a0 Oh, some of Noemi’s motivations weren’t close enough to the page, and some other elements needed a bit of pruning, but the structure, the bones–it all seems to be there.<\/p>\n

So, long story short: I got Laura’s comments on Monday, and finished the revisions today.\u00a0 TODAY.\u00a0 Of course, it still needs to be proofread, and I’d like to send the new version out to some other first readers … but I don’t anticipate making any major, earth-shattering changes to the story.\u00a0 In fact, I could publish it tomorrow, and most of you would probably love it.<\/p>\n

So far, my Star Wanderers<\/strong> books are selling much better than any of my other titles.\u00a0 They’re also much shorter, which means that I can put them out a lot faster–or should, at least.\u00a0 I probably angst over them more than I should, trying to make everything perfect.\u00a0 But I’ve got the extended series planned out to Part X, and I’ve already written half of Part VI.\u00a0 Some of those might get moved up or down, depending on demand, but the more I write in this universe, the more stories present themselves.\u00a0 And hey, if that’s what you want to read, I’ll be more than happy to write more of them.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, Dreamweaver<\/strong> will be out in the first half of April, perhaps as early as the end of March.\u00a0 As always, newsletter subscribers<\/a> will get a two-week coupon code to download the book for free on Smashwords.\u00a0 This also provides access to all future editions, in all ebook formats, completely DRM free.\u00a0 If you enjoy it, I hope you’ll review it or tell a friend about it.\u00a0 I’m not sure how I’ll end up pricing it, but I don’t anticipate going higher than $2.99.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s something to leave you with: an awesome remix of Jewel by Solarstone & Clare Stagg.\u00a0 Man, I love Solarstone’s work.\u00a0 I picked up his newest album, Pure, over the summer, and have been pulling songs from it for book soundtracks ever since.<\/p>\n