Self-imposed slush pile update
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elfsI haven't done one of these in a while, so it's time to get on top of the slush pile and start describing the State of the Elf's Literary Ambitions.
The Journal Entries
I have 27 stories in the final stages of spit and polish. At the rate of one a month, that gives me two years of publication rates to hit. I'm in one of those unfortunate situations where I'd like to release everything now just to get them out of the way, and to read your reactions to them, but I have to be practical and assume that my new readers aren't going to have much of a clue as to what they're seeing, and I need to have a backlog to string things out anyway. After that I have about 90 more; some of those are mere pieces/parts, and I have a whole raft of notes for more. I have two more Kaede & Eshi stories, three more in a serial I'm not happy with (the Gabrielle arc) but haven't a clue how to improve, two more Ken & Aaden stories, then three more stories in the Meigi arc, a standalone episode, two Oenone stories, a few more Ken & family stories, and then the Petri Dish series. Those are done.
After that I have in revision one more Maykir/Cott story, a story featuring Freya from Dreamteam Calamities, a couple of standalones, and three stories in my "futanari" series, which has been renamed the Sterlings arc, and one more Kaede & Eshi story.
After that, there are 96 stories in states of partial completion. Among those are The Palantir, a seven-episode arc about Pendorians stranded on a primitive planet (three episodes are complete), Meigi Dyaus, a four-episode (so far) arc about Pendorians discovering a lost starship and its illegal AI, a few more Ken, P'nyssa and Aaden stories, Visitors, a continuation of the Jan & Rory stories (at about 25K words right now), a 20K story from the Misuko & Linia arc about Misuko returning to her homeworld, another 20K of a planned 80K about Misuko and Linia dealing with a murder at Misuko's university and Linia dealing with a student who has a crush on her, and about 10K of an 80K story about Misuko and Linia confronting a pack of hostile AIs. There's a long arc called Reservationists, which has a bunch of stories ("Brave New World," "Cold Seas", "Indisposable", "The Encompassment Event", "World of Dreamers", "Pocket Full of Stars", "The Titan Rule") about a push by AIs in the third millenium to track down every one of the subcryo colony ships and reunite the various scattered tribes of humanity. There's Robots of the Deep vs. The Vampire Girl of Fallow Five, which continues the "vampires" arc from Reason To Live (1994) and explains what they are, where they came from, and a bunch of other things. A few standalone episodes, "Wooden Girl," "The Gondola," "Green Eyes," "Tree, Apple, Serpent," "Jake," and the very sad "Forgoing Eternity." And then we leap thousands of years into the future for the story arcs Superheroes, there's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Empire, and Petri Dish, along with the standalone story "Bridges of Stone."
Oh, and I have eleven "just plain notes and plot descriptions" in my Wiki, all for a very sexed-up series of full-on porn, since I haven't been writing that and should get back into that groove.
Aimee
There are two novels available in the Aimee series. Right now, I have four more planned, although only the first three have anything of value written to them. The current effort has the working title Princess Jera & Prince Arv, which tells of two tales, one in the past and one in the "present," about a young princess discovering that she is a mage, and the fate of the last royal who was also a mage. Here, we get to see the "home country" of Barraminum's empire, the City of Cortane. It's a dark and nasty little tale.
After that, Aimee' in the Imperial City tells of Aimee and Darynn coming to the Imperial City to help the Princess above in her predicament and becoming embroiled in scandals and a murder mystery.
The Fall of Ircsentai is actually finished, but it won't make sense unless I finish the two stories above.
Miri's Service shows the aftermath of The Fall of Irsentai (well, there's one short story between the two), and about how a century after Darynn and Aimee' the world is a different and nasty place.
Other stuff
I still have my working notes for the Caprice Starr series. Like other stuff, I'm never sure if I'm equipped with the sense of humor necessary to go gonzo, or if I should play it straight and try to write this as a dialogue with its predecessor. I'm tempted to the latter. Still, it's hard to take seriously when one of my notes reads, "Don't you get it? I'm the evil twin!"
I have another working universe, the Mora universe, that I've never shown anyone. The Mora series has three stories in it, the first a five-season, ten episodes per season serial about a vicious Rome-like empire with magic. The second is the Janae novel, set significantly later, in which a magically adept swordswoman discovers a conspiracy to use her kind for evil purposes, and finally Toby and Kasserine, set much later in history when magic is all but ancient history, so weak no one can do anything with it, and forgotten. But it has left behind victims, and they must deal with the tragedies visited upon their ancestors. There's one short story, "Idyll", which is also planned.
Moon Sun Dragons languishes. So does Sarah's Reason, a YA novel about a furred character in a previously STL universe who suddenly discovers that the whore reason her kind was engineered in the first place is now a moot point.
The Reef is just notes.
The Treehouse is almost done. Yes! I'll probably be posting this for Christmas.
Mad Science, Saria, and Intersections are all going into the drawer for now. They're just not coming together at all. Sad: there's about 80K words in there.
The Journal Entries
I have 27 stories in the final stages of spit and polish. At the rate of one a month, that gives me two years of publication rates to hit. I'm in one of those unfortunate situations where I'd like to release everything now just to get them out of the way, and to read your reactions to them, but I have to be practical and assume that my new readers aren't going to have much of a clue as to what they're seeing, and I need to have a backlog to string things out anyway. After that I have about 90 more; some of those are mere pieces/parts, and I have a whole raft of notes for more. I have two more Kaede & Eshi stories, three more in a serial I'm not happy with (the Gabrielle arc) but haven't a clue how to improve, two more Ken & Aaden stories, then three more stories in the Meigi arc, a standalone episode, two Oenone stories, a few more Ken & family stories, and then the Petri Dish series. Those are done.
After that I have in revision one more Maykir/Cott story, a story featuring Freya from Dreamteam Calamities, a couple of standalones, and three stories in my "futanari" series, which has been renamed the Sterlings arc, and one more Kaede & Eshi story.
After that, there are 96 stories in states of partial completion. Among those are The Palantir, a seven-episode arc about Pendorians stranded on a primitive planet (three episodes are complete), Meigi Dyaus, a four-episode (so far) arc about Pendorians discovering a lost starship and its illegal AI, a few more Ken, P'nyssa and Aaden stories, Visitors, a continuation of the Jan & Rory stories (at about 25K words right now), a 20K story from the Misuko & Linia arc about Misuko returning to her homeworld, another 20K of a planned 80K about Misuko and Linia dealing with a murder at Misuko's university and Linia dealing with a student who has a crush on her, and about 10K of an 80K story about Misuko and Linia confronting a pack of hostile AIs. There's a long arc called Reservationists, which has a bunch of stories ("Brave New World," "Cold Seas", "Indisposable", "The Encompassment Event", "World of Dreamers", "Pocket Full of Stars", "The Titan Rule") about a push by AIs in the third millenium to track down every one of the subcryo colony ships and reunite the various scattered tribes of humanity. There's Robots of the Deep vs. The Vampire Girl of Fallow Five, which continues the "vampires" arc from Reason To Live (1994) and explains what they are, where they came from, and a bunch of other things. A few standalone episodes, "Wooden Girl," "The Gondola," "Green Eyes," "Tree, Apple, Serpent," "Jake," and the very sad "Forgoing Eternity." And then we leap thousands of years into the future for the story arcs Superheroes, there's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Empire, and Petri Dish, along with the standalone story "Bridges of Stone."
Oh, and I have eleven "just plain notes and plot descriptions" in my Wiki, all for a very sexed-up series of full-on porn, since I haven't been writing that and should get back into that groove.
Aimee
There are two novels available in the Aimee series. Right now, I have four more planned, although only the first three have anything of value written to them. The current effort has the working title Princess Jera & Prince Arv, which tells of two tales, one in the past and one in the "present," about a young princess discovering that she is a mage, and the fate of the last royal who was also a mage. Here, we get to see the "home country" of Barraminum's empire, the City of Cortane. It's a dark and nasty little tale.
After that, Aimee' in the Imperial City tells of Aimee and Darynn coming to the Imperial City to help the Princess above in her predicament and becoming embroiled in scandals and a murder mystery.
The Fall of Ircsentai is actually finished, but it won't make sense unless I finish the two stories above.
Miri's Service shows the aftermath of The Fall of Irsentai (well, there's one short story between the two), and about how a century after Darynn and Aimee' the world is a different and nasty place.
Other stuff
I still have my working notes for the Caprice Starr series. Like other stuff, I'm never sure if I'm equipped with the sense of humor necessary to go gonzo, or if I should play it straight and try to write this as a dialogue with its predecessor. I'm tempted to the latter. Still, it's hard to take seriously when one of my notes reads, "Don't you get it? I'm the evil twin!"
I have another working universe, the Mora universe, that I've never shown anyone. The Mora series has three stories in it, the first a five-season, ten episodes per season serial about a vicious Rome-like empire with magic. The second is the Janae novel, set significantly later, in which a magically adept swordswoman discovers a conspiracy to use her kind for evil purposes, and finally Toby and Kasserine, set much later in history when magic is all but ancient history, so weak no one can do anything with it, and forgotten. But it has left behind victims, and they must deal with the tragedies visited upon their ancestors. There's one short story, "Idyll", which is also planned.
Moon Sun Dragons languishes. So does Sarah's Reason, a YA novel about a furred character in a previously STL universe who suddenly discovers that the whore reason her kind was engineered in the first place is now a moot point.
The Reef is just notes.
The Treehouse is almost done. Yes! I'll probably be posting this for Christmas.
Mad Science, Saria, and Intersections are all going into the drawer for now. They're just not coming together at all. Sad: there's about 80K words in there.
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:20 am (UTC)cum fer the pron, but stay for the talent...
Date: 2006-10-17 07:31 am (UTC)How would you feel about posting your work as it is processed so that those of us who are interested can see what you are doing and how it evolves and develops from initial notation through drafting and into final polish? I know this is asking a lot, but the chance to get a glimpse of how a writer of your caliber creates would be something few should pass up.
Thank you.
MPK
Watching the story develop...
Date: 2006-10-17 09:19 pm (UTC)I don't see "posting work in progress" as the preferred way to achieve this, but rather as a "special bonus section" following the publication of a story or set of stories. Let us see the finished product, and then show us the "behind the scenes" version of how you got there.
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Date: 2006-10-17 11:05 am (UTC)Revenue-generating idea for you...
Date: 2006-10-17 05:25 pm (UTC)You mentioned you'd like Pendorwright to pay for itself...
Perhaps you could offer people "early admission" to the stories for some suggested fee? Say, something like... $n gets you the next article to be posted, $n*3 allows access to everything for the next month or so, $n*10 gets the next six months and a personalized, autographed edition of whichever journal entry is their favorite.
Of course there's also the fact that this would throw a whole extra layer of complexity into your site and eat up all your prodigious free time -- two things I'm sure you don't want.
Bryan.
A simple typo
Date: 2006-10-17 10:36 pm (UTC)I think you mean "the whole reason."
Wait, is that what you meant? :-)
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