A pleasant, if chilly afternoon. I talked about the huge response from yesterday.
Note: The “barking dog” was back. I edited this to suppress some of the noise and clipped a bit of the barking out.
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That “retreat” sounds terrible. I’d put the $1000 toward covers for the Shaman’s Tales.
Which book is the story you most feel like telling at the moment? Is it Zypheria’s Call? If not, move onto whatever it is like you did with Cape Grace. That advice is probably the slowest possible way for you to get books released, but might get you writing more.
With respect to the Workshop – my suggestion is to get ahold of Kris or Dean, and *ask* if you’re misunderstanding, either the current scheduling, or the initial pitch. Error can happen in three places in a communication – the point of origin, during transmission, or at the point of reception. Maybe they haven’t quite explained it right. As for the breakfast issue – remember, as far as your body is concerned – that 9am breakfast time is 10am your body time. They’re on SecondLife time, after all.
Talk to them – maybe this retreat *isn’t* what you expected and wanted. Maybe they’ll know of one that is closer to what you’re looking for.
As for writing speed – there’s a lot more to writing than just putting down the words on the paper. You spent who knows how long building the Solar Clipper ‘verse in your head before you ever started writing Quarter Share, and you had things left over from it to carry you into Half Share, and Full Share, and so forth, and hooks for South Coast and Cape Grace (which are still in the same ‘verse, after all). Over all, Tanyth’s world seems newer in your head, so you still have pieces you are fitting together. And creating a whole *NEW* universe – that’s going to require even more work to get into shape.
Of course, you’re really not sure what you’re going to need until you get there – Ravenwood takes place over a distance of … well, Tanyth was about a day out from Ravenwood when she started, so call that 20 miles or so – and we never see her arrive at Overton (which is probably within 20 miles or so of Ravenwood as well), so there was little real need to build a map of the world as a whole until you started Zytheria’s Call. Certainly, you had some kind of fuzzy map – grew up here, son went to join the Guard there, Lammas Wood is somewhere up there – but the details had to have time to come into focus.
So, over all, I think you’re doing good this year. I’d say aim for 4 books, rather than 6, to give you time to work on other things interstitially. You really need to get Zytheria’s Call and Lammas Wood 3 out sooner rather than later, as the lack of sequels to what is billed as first in a trilogy is likely holding down sales of Ravenwood somewhat. For Cape Grace – might be best to just rm what you have done, and go back to writing the way that works much much better for you, rather than the pretty structured approach you have been taking. If it made it out in time to release on Podiobooks as Double Share or Captain’s Share was being released by Ridan, then – Showtime, Synergy!
Tara Li nailed that one. I like what she says here.
+1 Tara Li
yup +1
Yepper, I agree.
PS Don’t fix what ain’t broke. (QS)