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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Past Year
It’s been almost a year since the last blog post, where I wrote that the rough draft of Navance #3 was finished. As of today, it is published. Which begs the question: what took so long?
Part of the delay is that the story took a couple months to finish editing, which (so far) is normal for one of my stories. I’m trying to get better at writing clean first drafts, but I’m still at a stage where significant revisions happen from draft to draft.
Part of the delay was that I immediately jumped into more writing. The travelogue is coming along well, although it has taken more time than I’d anticipated. For fiction, Navance # 4 is written and edited and the title is The Champion of Copurn. I hope to have it out within a week.
Part of the delay is that I did a lot of travelling this year. While I love to travel, it does break up a writing routine. Every trip would kill my productivity even beyond the trip itself, so I need to get better about that.
And part of the delay is that I’ve had a hard time focusing on a single project. There are about 15 projects that are occupying my headspace and it’s easy to spread your efforts thin and have little to show for it. City of Cairns was 99% done for months, but I had mentally already moved on. Which means that I need to get in the habit of zoning in and completing a project before moving on.
With all that being said, I’ve had a really good year, and I’m very excited about the projects I’m working on. Look for Navance #4: Champion of Copurn soon.
Books I’ve read in the past year (by no means a complete list): We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, Paradise in Chains by Diana Preston, One Summer by Bill Bryson, The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
Part of the delay is that the story took a couple months to finish editing, which (so far) is normal for one of my stories. I’m trying to get better at writing clean first drafts, but I’m still at a stage where significant revisions happen from draft to draft.
Part of the delay was that I immediately jumped into more writing. The travelogue is coming along well, although it has taken more time than I’d anticipated. For fiction, Navance # 4 is written and edited and the title is The Champion of Copurn. I hope to have it out within a week.
Part of the delay is that I did a lot of travelling this year. While I love to travel, it does break up a writing routine. Every trip would kill my productivity even beyond the trip itself, so I need to get better about that.
And part of the delay is that I’ve had a hard time focusing on a single project. There are about 15 projects that are occupying my headspace and it’s easy to spread your efforts thin and have little to show for it. City of Cairns was 99% done for months, but I had mentally already moved on. Which means that I need to get in the habit of zoning in and completing a project before moving on.
With all that being said, I’ve had a really good year, and I’m very excited about the projects I’m working on. Look for Navance #4: Champion of Copurn soon.
Books I’ve read in the past year (by no means a complete list): We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, Paradise in Chains by Diana Preston, One Summer by Bill Bryson, The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
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