Angela Bendetti has a post about wanting the Shiny New Idea Joy, and whoo boy, do I hear that.

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Current Mood:  contemplative

• July: movie rough draft: seven pages. It’s been seven pages since last week. But at least that’s seven more than I had in June.
• August: the Four of Cups finished and sent! Which means August will be more movie and working on the Leo-Stuart story.
• September: More of the same. Polish the movie to a fine sheen.
• October: possibly a Christmas-themed novella for Torquere, and I want to start a few things for a Livejournal-based project in February called 14 Valentines, and starting the story for the wedding anthology.
• November: NANOWRIMO.
• December: finish the wedding anthology story, and more 14 Valentines.
• January: finish stories for 14 Valentines, start the next Arcana. I get the Queen of Wands, I think.

I know, not particularly exciting and I haven’t had any Really Deep Thoughts lately . . . but sometimes there just isn’t energy for Really Deep Thoughts, you know?

I realized yesterday morning that I have nothing else scheduled to come out this year. Alas, alas.

• July: movie rough draft, which I know I’ve been saying for months but this time I mean it. My partner wants to take it to a production company in October. I need to stop flailing about it and just write.
• August: the Four of Cups is due to the editor. It’ll be ready. It’s at about 11,000 words right now and just needs one more once-over by the First Reader Brigade for clarity and cohesion. And then movie-polishing.
• September: the Leo-Stuart story. FOR REALS, YO. Finish movie-polishing.
• October: possibly a Christmas-themed novella for Torquere, and I want to start a few things for a Livejournal-based project in February called 14 Valentines, and starting the story for the wedding anthology.
• November: NANOWRIMO.
• December: finish the wedding anthology story, and more 14 Valentines.

March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft. STATUS: Well . . . I got about 10,000 words into the rough draft and then it all petered out.

April-May: the movie rough draft. STATUS: Still planning on this. I’ve decided to participate in Script Frenzy for inspiration. I have a file box full of primary and secondary sources and more that I need to print out. I have an outline broken down sequences and scenes. I even have some freeware screenwriting software that’s actually quite nifty and helpful.

. . . I’m utterly terrified. BUT. We carry on.

June-July: Arcana rough and editing. STATUS: Will probably start this in May . . .

August-Sept-October: Editing Cartography for Beginners STATUS: if I’m not attempting to keep writing this instead.

Either way, the Arcana is due in August, so writing of it will take place before then.

November: Nanowrimo (next SF ‘verse story) STATUS: Well, I know which story I want to to do . . .

December: REST!!! maybe write some fic. STATUS: YES.

I see from my web stats that somebody’s been searching for more news about upcoming releases, so here’s what’s coming up.

• Something Beautiful will be out later this year. This is the next of the San Francisco stories and will focus on Micah and Dune. I’ll be doing some stuff to celebrate when it comes out, so watch for a contest or two over the summer.
• The Birthstone story, currently called Diamond, will be out in late April. This is the historical fantasy I posted a snippet of a few months ago.
• I’m currently working on the third of the San Francisco stories, verrrrrry slooooooooowly. I could start posting stats as an incentive to myself . . . It’s called Cartography for Beginners and focuses on Leo.
• Next year I’ll be publishing a novella in Torquere Press’s Arcana line, but that’s all a bit vague at the moment. (I have a card and a due date. Beyond that, patience, grasshopper.)

I’m sorry to be so vague. I’ll have more details when I get them.

. . . is what I’ve been calling my plans for the year. The big list of next looks like this:

March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft.
April-May: the movie rough draft
June-July: Arcana rough and editing
August-Sept-October: Editing Cartography for Beginners
November: Nanowrimo (next SF ‘verse story)
December: REST!!! maybe write some fic.

Though I’m considering writing the Arcana in March and saving the next novel for the summer, but I’m not sure at the moment. What project I will begin tomorrow will depend on which one feels the most ready, and I may surprise myself entirely and decide to start the movie instead. (Unlikely, really, though I got some more material and a good idea from my partner this morning that makes me itch to get this thing going.)

And between all of this there’s editing to be done for the new releases, and maybe some shorts, too. (And the day job and what passes for a social life and all the household things . . .)

I am starting something tomorrow. Don’t know what yet, at the moment. But there will be something.

A brief list of everything I need/want to write in the next few months:

• a birthstone story
• an Arcana
• the next story in the SF series
• a contemporary fantasy type thing
• a single shot about a long-time couple reconnecting
• a yaoi-inspired thing

And that’s not even counting the movie. Yeek.