{"id":982,"date":"2009-07-22T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-07-22T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T07:02:57","slug":"refocusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/refocusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Refocusing"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a regular of this blog, you may have noticed that I took off the statusbar for Ashes of the Starry Sea 2.2<\/em>. \u00a0I’ve decided to discontinue that project for the foreseeable future, while I work on Genesis Earth<\/em> and Bringing Stella Home.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s not that I think that Ashes<\/em> doesn’t have potential, or that I can’t rewrite it. \u00a0It’s just that I don’t want something good to keep me from doing my best.<\/p>\n

Ashes<\/em>, in its first incarnation, was very much a practice novel. \u00a0It has potential, but it’s going to take a lot<\/em> of work to get it publishable. \u00a0In the meantime, I’ve got two other novels that are much better–much more workable. \u00a0I don’t want them to be any worse because I’ve diverted too much attention toward something else.<\/p>\n

When I wrote Ashes<\/em> two years ago, I cringed at the thought that this was going to be just a practice novel. \u00a0It was my magnum opus, the best thing I’d ever written! \u00a0Well, since then, I’ve written a lot of other stuff that is much<\/em> better. \u00a0I’m able to let this baby sit on the back burner while I polish the better stuff.<\/p>\n

(baby…back burner…okay, disturbing image)<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, I had an AWESOME<\/strong> story idea today at Leading Edge!<\/p>\n

Ever read the Illiad<\/em> or the Odyssey?<\/em> Didn’t you think that the Greek gods were just so petty, with their stupid feuds and their dumb wagers? \u00a0Did it disturb you how they toyed around with humanity, ruining people’s lives just for sport?<\/p>\n

Well, imagine this: an ancient Greek Van Helsing who slays gods instead of vampires!<\/p>\n

Yeah, man! \u00a0That’s gotta make for some interesting story material right there! \u00a0The godslayer…the man who dares to challenge fate and takes up arms against the forces of the universe, slaying the immortals, overpowering the omnipotent, and outwitting the omniscient. \u00a0Sounds like…like Richard Dawkins meets Sparticus. =P<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s the idea. \u00a0What’s your take on it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a regular of this blog, you may have noticed that I took off the statusbar for Ashes of the Starry Sea 2.2. \u00a0I’ve decided to discontinue that project for the foreseeable future, while I work on Genesis Earth and Bringing Stella Home. It’s not that I think that Ashes doesn’t have potential, or… Continue reading Refocusing<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,32],"tags":[89,272,46,273,182,52,4],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ge","tag-career-decisions","tag-first-novels","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-greeks","tag-humor","tag-story-ideas","tag-the-lost-colony","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}