So it has again been a while between updates, but unlike last time, there has actually been some stuff going on. So I now present a multi part update:
Ghosts of War - I’ve gotten more done in the last 6 weeks or so than I had in the rest of 2016, so that’s a positive. Like, you can use 4 numbers to count the amount of words written. So I seem to be getting out the other side of this giant patch of writer’s block I’ve been in (NaNo did not work out...at all...), which is nice.
I’ve also set a deadline for getting a final draft into Inkshares. Plan is to get that into them by the end of July so that there’s enough time to get this thing into your hands before the end of the year.
Also, Inkshares recently launched their ’properties’ initiative which helps authors sell the rights for their works to people wanting to make TV shows, movies, audiobooks and the like. It’s a rather exciting thing for them to be doing and it’ll be interesting to see if anything comes from it for Ghosts.
LandFall - So this is my fantasy project that I hope to get to working on later this year. I had the idea up on Inkshares a while ago, but have recently bumped it into draft mode so I can put up a sample chapter. Also, while on a break day (read: lazy day), I made a mockup of how I’d love for the final LandFall book to look.
I will be pushing for this to be a 750 copy selling hardcover from the outset, which sounds...daunting...but I won’t be launching the campaign until I know I can get it done. I have some special plans for it.
You can check out LandFall here ---->;;;;;;;; https://www.inkshares.com/books/landfall
CORE - You might be wondering ’What is this CORE you speak of?’
Well that’s a pretty good question actually, and one to which the answer is changing all the time. At it’s core (I’m sorry), it’s the story I threw into the Nerdist video game contest on a whim a couple of weeks ago. It’s a really small nucleus of an idea, which is why I put such a long funding time on it (it currently has 346 days remaining), so that I have time to, y’know, work out the whole story and write the damn thing...lol
And I have been working it out. I’ve got several characters in place, and a beginning and an end that I’m happy with. Now to just work out the pesky middle...the middle is always a problem.
But, since I have to finish Ghosts, and all chances of winning the Nerdist comp vanished almost instantly, the pressure is off a bit on this one for now, however if you want to check it out you can do so here ---->;;;;;;;; https://www.inkshares.com/books/core
Oh and here’s the (very, very) temporary cover for it.
So yeah, that’s the state of things as they are right now. I’ll do my best to not leave it another 3 months before an update.
Until next time.
