Writing Updatia
Aug. 8th, 2012 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianThe top story this week is Mad Max. I wrote 300 words on it, mostly outlines of past history, and I shelved it. It's being set aside from consideration for the anthology on account of it wanting to be much more than the 10k word limit. I think I might try to keep it to a decent novella length work, but the silly thing might end up insisting on being a novel. Don't that beat all.
The anthology isn't out of consideration, though. The briefly codenamed "wild max", now officially titled Trouble and Captain Jack, came into existence, telling a bit of Maxie's past, particularly, how she met the love of her life, Jack. Thus, this story is the priority, and, in addition to those 300 words that went to the shared history of the characters, I wrote 7,300 words over the past few days, and I figure I'm close to wrapping things up. Maybe. These characters are great, and I could probably take another 7,300 words to do the job, but I want to wrap it up a bit sooner rather than later, and come in under the 10k limit.
Ghost Dance made it through editing, so I need to get that ready for submission. It will be going in along with Of the Leaves and of the Waves and Never Ever After, which are still in editing. I have a bunch of markets in mind for Empress Awakened, I just have to select who gets it first and get it out the door.
Finished Works:
In Progress:
The anthology isn't out of consideration, though. The briefly codenamed "wild max", now officially titled Trouble and Captain Jack, came into existence, telling a bit of Maxie's past, particularly, how she met the love of her life, Jack. Thus, this story is the priority, and, in addition to those 300 words that went to the shared history of the characters, I wrote 7,300 words over the past few days, and I figure I'm close to wrapping things up. Maybe. These characters are great, and I could probably take another 7,300 words to do the job, but I want to wrap it up a bit sooner rather than later, and come in under the 10k limit.
Ghost Dance made it through editing, so I need to get that ready for submission. It will be going in along with Of the Leaves and of the Waves and Never Ever After, which are still in editing. I have a bunch of markets in mind for Empress Awakened, I just have to select who gets it first and get it out the door.
Finished Works:
- Full Moon Poetry, urban fantasy, 14,100 words ~ in editing ~ needs formatted ~ two markets in mind
- Ghost Dance, urban fantasy, 5,500 words, edited, needs to be prepared for submission, have market in mind
- The Hollow Man, fantasy noir, 4,600 words, submitted 6/14/2012
- The Sky Galleons of Mediolanum, Renaissance-Era Macedonian Empire steampunk, 4,400 words, submitted 7/27/2012
- Of the Leaves and of the Waves, urban fantasy, 4,100 words, in editing, need 1 editor, have market in mind
- A Rose for Princess, fairy talish fantasy, 3,800 words, submitted 8/1/2012
- Never Ever After, myth/fantasy, 3,100 words, in editing, have market in mind
- Empress Awakened, classic fantasy, 1,400 words, need to select a new market
In Progress:
- Kryptos, Renaissance-Era Macedonian Empire steampunk novel, 53,700 words out of maybe 120,000 (mostly notes)
- L'Abattoir, pirate steampunk novella, 15,900 words out of maybe 60,000
- The Ellyssian Tarot, tarot deck and book, 13,000 words out of maybe 120,000 (mostly notes)
- Trouble and Captain Jack, steampunk, 7,300 words out of 3,000 to 10,000, for an anthology
- The Gauntlet, fantasy novel, 5,500 words out of maybe 120,000
- Mad Max, steampunk, 3,100 words out of ?
- Changeling, werewolf, 1,300 words out of ?
- The Last Great Battle, classic fantasy, 1,200 words out of ?
- green man, urban fantasy, 900 words out of 5000 max, for an anthology
- green tracks, urban fantasy, 100 words out of ?