Trilogy

I'm still working on my blog-style novella, but I've also started a new novel. With the sequel to the Teardrop Game done, I feel compelled to write a third. And I'm excited to write a third. I think my writing goals for 2012 will be the following:

• finish Another Year or Two
• finish the third book of the Teardrop Game series
• rewrite (again) the first section of the Teardrop Game (I've reread this recently and realized it is more or less irrelevant to the rest of the book. *sigh)
• clean up all three books and see what I have

Should be fun.

Something Else Entirely

I've decided to take a new approach to writing my next novel. Basically, I'm going to write the whole thing online, using a blogging platform to create posts by multiple characters.

If you'd like to learn more about what I'm doing, how and why, see this page.

To start reading, just to go vitzy.com.

What Next?

I reread Chaos Ward this weekend. It might need a different title, but otherwise I'm satisfied it is a complete first draft.

Which means it is time to move on to my next project. I have three different ideas I'm playing with. In many ways the most logical thing would be for me to rewrite The Cooper Files. It's been a long time since I wrote that draft, and have some excellent feedback from multiple sources and lots of ideas on how to improve it. The problem is I don't feel very connected to that particular novel right now. I'm feeling more inclined to go through The Teardrop Game and polish up the writing (it could use a lot of polishing), or start a grand experiment I've been contemplating that will involve writing an entire novel via interconnecting blog posts of different characters.

So while I'm trying to decide between these three options, I'm not doing anything. I suppose I'd better just pick one and see how it goes. Maybe I need a three-sided die?

Chaos Ward: Finished

This morning I finished the first draft of my current novel. It came in right at 100,000 words. All in all, I'm quite happy with the way it turned out. I'll probably tinker with it a bit more, then put it away for a while to let it mature while I move on to the next thing.