Revenge of the Gamer

Well, I finally finished the Yuri novel.  I gave it one last edit this weekend, and have submitted it to White Wolf.  Now its a waiting game.  I don’t expect them to publish it, but anything could happen I suppose.

I’ve also sent off quite a few things to the Rifter, and I should see a steady stream of published material from them over the next year.  Now I’ve moved on to other original short stories aimed at publications like the Dragonmount Anthology, and Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine.

At the same time I’ve been putting work into The Bond of Jhordil.  I’ve finished writing up the two story arcs that will form the novel. I’m adding character bios slowly but surely, and am starting to flesh out chapter outlines.

Its a radically different process from how I wrote the Yuri novel, but by being much more organized I’m hoping I can do what Orson Scott Card did with Ender’s Game.  He prepped everything, and then wrote the actual novel in just a few weeks.

The writing of the novel will take me longer than that, but if I have the framework in place I think I can get the novel written in two to three months of solid writing.  I’ll kick off the actual writing on November first, which puts a full rough draft at completion somewhere between February and April.

I’m still floored at all I’ve accomplished this year, but it feels like I have a long way to go.  Thank you to those who’ve shown me so much encouragement!  It helps knowing I’m not alone!