The Downside of Traditional or Epic Fantasy

In re-evaluating the self-imposed deadlines I set for myself, I started thinking about the wisdom of writing the books sitting in my brain.

On the one hand, I feel like there are so many characters and stories in there right now there isn't room for more, for different. That's the biggest factor that makes writing these stories right now so appealing.

On the other hand, all these books hinge on Woven and its trilogy getting published. Events that are the crux of the story in Heirs of the Seven Realms inform the events of pretty much everything else. Characters sometimes cross over from book to book, and sometimes one story's book will have a side or tertiary character whose offspring appears later.

Someone remind me not to ever come up with and entertain so many stories that cross each other again, okay?


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Er...Did I Say Tuesday?

Because apparently I meant Wednesday. Yeesh.

Life is crazy, as it always is. But I'm making steady progress.

A few weeks ago I sat down and looked at the queue of writing projects sitting in my head, waiting to be written.

There are a lot of them. I definitely had a quake-in-my-boots moment over that. So I sat down and laid out a whole bunch of self-imposed deadlines for all those projects.

It's a bit insane, let me tell you.

But so far, I've met my deadlines. Which is really just one deadline.

I have a deadline this Saturday for my line edits and such on Woven but I'm not so certain I'll be able to make that.

My next deadline is for Curse of Life draft 1 and that's the last day of September. I might make it if I really push but I might miss it.

I have all sorts of other deadlines interspersed throughout and will at one point soon, I hope, have a manuscript in the query stage, one in the revision stage, one in the drafting stage, and one in development/research stage.

Also, if I make all my deadlines I'll have something ready to start working on when NaNo comes around. It'll be my first time participating in this and I am really looking forward to the prospect.