Something new

I've got chapter one of something new coming tomorrow and chapter two in the can.

It's not A Man of the People. I have a chapter of that one ready, too - but it's stalled there. Right now, my creative energies are pointed at epic fantasy and I'm going to run with it.

The new novel is called We Few Against the Rising Dark. It's set on Tierra, a world I've been thinking about even longer than I thought about New Rome before I wrote Elevated.

Please let me know what you think. Feedback is the fuel that makes Tom Frost write.

I Aeten't Dead!

I haven't had the focus to write much since finishing Elevated. Real life has been chaotic and it keeps my mind boiling with real concerns.

I don't know when I'll get back to writing stories that are worth sharing (or stories at all.) I don't know when I'll get back to New Rome. When I do, it probably won't be with a weekly posting schedule.

Right now, I'm getting back to trying to write something every day. I look forward to getting back to the story-telling aspects of writing.

Elevated once more...

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Now that *that's* settled...

After a brief, but very disruptive job search, I'm now in my second week on the new job. The job search was actually remarkably easy, but it didn't really leave me time or energy to think about writing.

I've gradually started to get some free writing time back, but until tonight, I've been using it exclusively to write code. Tonight has been the first night I've really sat down and been Tom Frost.

I'd like to start working on more New Rome stories and have two at least partially structured. Before I get too deeply into them, I'm trying to clear the decks for Elevated. For now, that means aggregating the typos people found and making notes for the next (hopefully final draft.)

If anyone's interested in watching the process, you can see the growing list of typos here. It's the first piece of my "spoiler wiki" - a tool I'm using to help in my writing, but which anyone who wants to dissect my work is welcome to dig through (although, as it's named, it will probably be chock full of spoilers about existing and future work.)

No posting this week

As much as I wanted to post something new this week, the double whammy of finishing a novel and suddenly finding myself looking for a job hasn't left me with much impetus to finish anything. I have a number of stories open and active in the hopper, including Visions of a New Rome (a New Rome origin story,) but nothing is coalescing and I don't want to force it.

Hopefully, I'll have something ready by next Friday to share.

Elevated Chapter 21 is posted

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A Man of the People (maybe)

Part of yesterday's writing time was spent organizing Elevated. When I write, I use Google Docs as an ersatz version control system and one step of that is to create a release branch of my documents so that I know what I actually published before going back and making more changes. (Chapter 21 has one more round of proofing to go.)

Far more enjoyable was starting to sketch out what may end up being the outline for A Man of the People. I have so many ideas for the next book, some of the original ideas are already slipping towards the third book. (When I first started working on New Rome last year, I was originally planning on writing a novel called The Centurion in my Head, but ultimately decided it introduced too many elements all at once. It's now looking like The Centurion in my Head may end up being the third New Rome novel.)