Many, I wish I could write faster. I probably can, but there are times when writing is an uphill slog, and you can’t put your foot on the accelerator too hard or your tires will spin out.<\/p>\n
Right now, I’m about halfway through Star Wolf<\/strong> (formerly HEART OF THE NEBULA), and I’m in the part of the manuscript that needs the most work. I’ll probably be throwing out 60%-70% of what’s in there now and rewriting it from scratch, at least until the last five chapters. That’s not the hard part, though–the hard part is untangling the storylines that need to be kept from the storylines that need to be thrown out. I’ve already outlined the basic structure, but for the next couple of chapters, I’ve decided to abandon my revision notes. Now, everything is murky.<\/p>\n So that’s what I’ve been up to in the last few days. Star Wolf<\/strong> is a novel in the Gaia Nova series, and will probably end up around 120,000 words or so. That’s around the same length as Bringing Stella Home,<\/strong> or perhaps a bit longer. Definitely a change of pace from the novellas I’ve written in the last couple of years. As much of a slog as it is now, though, it’s got a lot of good stuff in it. Action, adventure, political intrigue, hard moral choices–not to mention space battles, generation ships, and cryonics gone horribly right<\/a>.<\/p>\n But really, I want to get this one finished so that I can work on Sons of the Starfarers Book II: Comrades in Hope. <\/strong> I’m so excited about this one, I’m thinking about putting Star Wolf<\/strong> on hold for a few weeks so that I can just write it. Of course, a few weeks will probably turn into one or two months, and by the time it’s finished I’ll want to move immediately on to book 3.<\/p>\n Which actually might not be a bad thing, since I want to launch Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> as soon as I can. It seems like you guys have really enjoyed Star Wanderers,<\/strong> so I think that you’re going to enjoy Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> even more. I’m already getting the feedback from my first readers for Book I: Brothers in Exile,<\/strong> and while there are a few minor fixes to make, the story itself seems pretty solid. And the places I want to go with this series … man, it’s going to be awesome.<\/p>\n Just to give you a taste, here’s an excerpt from the first chapter of Brothers in Exile.<\/strong> Isaac and Aaron have just arrived at a derelict station on the fringes of settled space, light-years away from the nearest human being.<\/p>\n