So, the A to Z challenge is over, and it’s back to things as usual.\u00a0 I hope you guys enjoyed it–I’ll probably compile the posts at some point, update them to add some more examples and references, and put it out as a $2.99 ebook.\u00a0 When I get around to it, that is.\u00a0 If that’s something that interests any of you, let me know and I’ll get it up sooner.<\/p>\n
As far as writing goes, I just went back to work on Lifewalker<\/strong> yesterday, and the story is coming along swimmingly.\u00a0 This is the post-apocalyptic story about a guy wandering down the ruins of I-15 with a copy of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn<\/em>.\u00a0 I checked with Peter and Brandon about that, and they said it’s okay.\u00a0 In fact, they think it’s hilarious.\u00a0 And it is, I suppose, though the book takes itself fairly seriously.<\/p>\n Just to give you an idea what I’m talking about, here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n The first night, I stayed in a small village known as Sannakin. The people there were surprisingly friendly, though they assured me that they would have been more cautious if I had come from the south.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s south of here?\u201d I asked the village patriarch over dinner.<\/p>\n He shrugged. \u201cDon\u2019t know\u2014never been that way. Get a lot of tinkers, though, and a merchant ever now and again. There\u2019s people out there, that\u2019s for sure\u2014but it’s a wild and a dangerous country.\u201d<\/p>\n I paid them for their hospitality by reading from Mistborn: The Final Empire.<\/em> The story confused many of them, especially those who had never seen the ruins of a city. I explained to them that the forefathers used to live in great communes of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people. This sparked a vigorous discussion over how such a large community could possibly provide enough food for itself, and how it would handle the waste. Some people asked me if in the days before the Blight, ash covered the sky as it did in my book. I answered that it probably had, though doubtless the author had exaggerated it somewhat for the purposes of the story. This led to an even more vigorous discussion about the merits of fantasy stories in general, with most of the villagers forming a decidedly negative opinion of the genre. I strongly disagreed, of course, but held my tongue so as not to offend my hosts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Today, I wrote a passage where the main character had to mediate an argument between two scholars over who was the primary god in the forefather’s pantheon: Batman or Superman.\u00a0 In a few chapters, he’ll rescue a girl from a band of bloodthirsty cannibal slavers infesting in the ruins of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n As you can tell, this book is a lot of fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n As for the publishing side of things, I’m working with an illustrator to get the cover ready for the first Star Wanderers<\/strong> omnibus.\u00a0 It’s going to be for Parts I through IV, but don’t worry–if you’ve already bought the parts individually, there won’t be any new content except the author’s note.\u00a0 I’ll either publish that here or send my newspaper subscribers a link for where they can read it.<\/p>\n I’m not sure if anyone really reads the author’s notes at the ends of my books, but I enjoy telling the story behind the story, so I’ll keep doing them.\u00a0 Besides, I figure some of you have read them, since you’re signing up for my email newsletter and sending me an occasional fan emails.\u00a0 I really enjoy those, by the way, so thanks for sending them!<\/p>\n That’s just about it for things over here.\u00a0 In unrelated news, I recently discovered an excellent sci-fi webcomic.\u00a0 It’s called Freefall<\/a>, and the archives stretch waaaaay back to 1998 (!!!).\u00a0 So yeah, I’m going to be busy for a while.<\/p>\n But don’t worry, I’ll still Aaand my roommate wants to sleep, so I’d better get off the computer now.\u00a0 Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, the A to Z challenge is over, and it’s back to things as usual.\u00a0 I hope you guys enjoyed it–I’ll probably compile the posts at some point, update them to add some more examples and references, and put it out as a $2.99 ebook.\u00a0 When I get around to it, that is.\u00a0 If that’s… Continue reading Post A to Z update<\/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":"An excerpt from my WIP, in which the protagonist wanders the Earth with a copy of @BrandSanderson's MISTBORN.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[779,857],"tags":[78,474,107,728,232],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifewalker","category-sw","tag-brandon-sanderson","tag-excerpts","tag-post-apocalypse","tag-webcomics","tag-why-we-write","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","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=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}find<\/del> make time for writing.\u00a0 I’m doing about 2k words per day right now, so at that rate, the first draft of Lifewalker<\/strong> should be finished before the end of May.<\/p>\n