As things start to settle down a little here, I'm looking to get back into a routine of writing at least ten hours a week - mostly so that I have things to post after the last chapter of Elevated goes up on February 14.
Today I put in about three hours and wrote the first seven pages of They Move Slowly in Winter and it's starting to look like a real story. I also have the first six pages of The First Saturnalia (which almost certainly won't be called that,) but it's not feeling like a story yet. I know how it starts and how I want it to end, but not the middle bit.
Right now, my best-laid plans are to write short stories to release for a month or so while I kick around longer pieces to see which one will keep me engaged for the six months or so it takes me to write a full novel. Right now, the most likely contender is Operation Timestitch, which is also probably not going to be the final title of the story, but it's a do-over story with enough genre-breaking twists to make it interesting. If I can get five solid chapters, I'll probably commit to finishing it and start posting.
Right now, my plan is to post either Folded Too Long or They Move Slowly in Winter on February 21. The former, about a pop star who slips her handlers shortly after her eighteenth birthday, is already in draft, but I think the latter is a stronger story. It's a retelling of Vulgar Argot's Second Billing and Eve, Eventide, but with zombies. If it works out well, I'm going to look at picking up the unfinished Treaty Troops.
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