Over this year (2014) I've become more serious about being a writer. I took a Creative Writing Lecture class from Brandon Sanderson this past winter semester, and I'm planning on doing his workshop class next winter semester. Plus, my main writer's group has become more regular in meeting, and better in critiquing. Along with all this, I'm trying to write 7,000 words a week.
It'll be several years, and a good number of no-so-great novel drafts before I become an actual accomplished author, but I want to get into good habits now that will help me reach that goal. Things such as writing every day, and maintaining a blog.
Another good habit to get into is accountability. So on those lines, here are the main writing projects I working on right now:
Bloodlines.
This is a SciFi/Thriller novel I'm working on. A mysterious plague breaks loose in several places around the world. The plague is lethal and spreading, and the survivors are exhibiting weird symptoms. Matthew Drake, a retired soldier who works for a private security firm, gets drawn in to these events.
I plan on this being the first book in a trilogy, but this isn't going to be the first book I try to get published. This book, and possibly its sequels are intended to be practice. I've written twelve chapters thus far, and I can already see ways that I am improving.
Nakt
This is going to be a series of SciFi short stories. The plan is for each one to stand on its own as a story, but for aspects of the stories to connect in an over arching plot. I don't know how it will work out, but I'm going to experiment. I've already written a first draft of one story, and I've outlined a second. I'd like to get a couple of these stories published, but again I'm not an awesome writer yet, so we'll see.
Succession
This one is a fantasy novel. I've got a few cool ideas that are coming together, but not a full story yet. I want this to be the novel I try to get published in a few years. In that vein, I'm not actually writing it yet. I'm working on world-building and plot-building. I also plan to write a few short stories, and maybe even a novella or two set in this world to help me explore it.
So those are the overarching projects I'm working on in my head. A bit more specifically:
| Bloodlines, Draft 1: | 40% |
| Outpost 17-C, Draft 2: | 30% |
| UEC Falcon, Draft 1: | 10% |
That is where I am right now, and where I am heading as a writer.
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