Time Machine

Apparently I forgot this even existed. Anyway, the old project I was talking about two years ago is shelved. I lost all interest. In between, I tried resurrecting my Ancient World concept as an RPG. The designer and I haven't been able to match schedules for any length of time, so very little has progressed. That one's just back-burnered. I also fiddled around with my occult ensemble book for a while, but could get any fire for it.

Ah, but what am I working on? I actually started a second run through a novel writing course I took a few years ago. How to Think Sideways  I convinced a few people at work to give it a try and we'd go through all the exercises and stuff together, sharing our perspectives, questions, and such. Well, only one guy has stuck with me to now (but others say they're going to join back in).

It's been a few months, probably... three? It took 'til week eight before we started writing the novel itself. We set it up on a weekly basis so we'd all have time to read the lesson, ask questions, do the lesson, then share our experiences.

But to answer your unasked question, I'm doing an Urban Fantasy project this time. Already 13K words deep. For me, that's a huge number on a personal project. Sure, I've written more for company things I've done in the industry, but this is all mine.

I'm finding out I'm a skeletal writer. Not fully an outliner and definitely not a discovery or "pantster." I need to have my primary milestones thought out with some A, B, and C for those scenes. The rest fills it in as I go.

On this project I have tried SO hard to not world build before I wrote. Usually I can spend months just writing a world bible - designing cultures, languages, communities, weapons, magic systems, etc. This time, I limited myself to writing any world ideas in a file in the shortest way possible. And I didn't write more than I had at the time. I sure didn't let myself develop an idea and let it spiderweb out of control (like I am wont to do).

So there you have it. An update.

I have no idea when the next might be.