I finally finished my WIP! Peace of Wolves is complete at 243k words (gulp) and now with beta readers. After three years, it’s actually weird not to be working on it.
I recommend starting another work. Not only will it keep you busy while you wait, it will help clear your mind so you later edit the first work with new eyes.
Congratulations! And 243K words is the equivalent of two to four novels of more usual size. Averaging it out, it comes to the equivalent of one book per year, which is a very good rate.
Moving the convention’s accounts to a different bank and sorting out all the things that go along with that has been an excellent tactic to avoid that revision I should be doing.
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to have the house to myself for an extended weekend. I still won’t be doing that revision, but if I can get going on some of the short stories that have been poking my brain, I’ll still call it a win.
Seriously contemplating abandoning the WIP that’s been shuffling between the back and front burners now for decades. There are some damned good scenes in there with some fine writing (if I do say so myself), but the overall structure may be flawed beyond being salvageable.
And I cannot say with any certainty that letting it go would be a good thing or a bad thing.
When it has been on the front burner, I’ve mostly just watched it stew, unable to add to it in any meaningful way. This is probably a sign that I knew at some level that it was not worth furthe effort.
“Incredibly hard” is not the same as “broken beyond repair.” Other things that are also not synonyms for “broken” include “not ready yet (dammit)”, “needs a thing, (but I don’t know what)” and “too ambitious for now/I don’t have the chops.” Possibly being a watched pot is part of the issue. Move it to wherever you put your “not right now” ideas and/or partials (as long as that isn’t the recycle bin), and give it a brief look every two or three books or so.
If you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, you should let it go and work on something else.
Whether that means it really died — well, The Other Princess had gone the rounds of magazines and gotten trunked. Then I got a brilliant idea on how to fix it. Just tweak the ending.
Three drafts that were each massive overhauls later, I published.
There’s AI slop being pushed on Facebook under your name. It is very much not your style or kind of fiction. This is probably the wrong place to place this comment, but I couldn’t find another way to contact you.
I’m apparently about 30k into the current wip out of the series that wasn’t supposed to happen. I haven’t actually checked word count on all the stories in there, but I have high hopes on this particular one not having distracting dependencies, so I should just be able to get through it and be done.
I finally finished my WIP! Peace of Wolves is complete at 243k words (gulp) and now with beta readers. After three years, it’s actually weird not to be working on it.
Good heavens. That’s huge.
Congratulations for sticking with it.
Congrats!
Woohoo!
Woot!
Thank you all 😀
I recommend starting another work. Not only will it keep you busy while you wait, it will help clear your mind so you later edit the first work with new eyes.
Congratulations! And 243K words is the equivalent of two to four novels of more usual size. Averaging it out, it comes to the equivalent of one book per year, which is a very good rate.
Congratulations, Rowan!
On to the next project . . . 😉
Moving the convention’s accounts to a different bank and sorting out all the things that go along with that has been an excellent tactic to avoid that revision I should be doing.
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to have the house to myself for an extended weekend. I still won’t be doing that revision, but if I can get going on some of the short stories that have been poking my brain, I’ll still call it a win.
Revising a short novel. It’s turning into a long one.
Congratulations!
Plugging away at a rolling rewrite. Finding myself sidetracked into world-building for a completely different setting.
Seriously contemplating abandoning the WIP that’s been shuffling between the back and front burners now for decades. There are some damned good scenes in there with some fine writing (if I do say so myself), but the overall structure may be flawed beyond being salvageable.
And I cannot say with any certainty that letting it go would be a good thing or a bad thing.
When it has been on the front burner, I’ve mostly just watched it stew, unable to add to it in any meaningful way. This is probably a sign that I knew at some level that it was not worth furthe effort.
“Incredibly hard” is not the same as “broken beyond repair.” Other things that are also not synonyms for “broken” include “not ready yet (dammit)”, “needs a thing, (but I don’t know what)” and “too ambitious for now/I don’t have the chops.” Possibly being a watched pot is part of the issue. Move it to wherever you put your “not right now” ideas and/or partials (as long as that isn’t the recycle bin), and give it a brief look every two or three books or so.
What do you think is wrong with the structure?
If you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, you should let it go and work on something else.
Whether that means it really died — well, The Other Princess had gone the rounds of magazines and gotten trunked. Then I got a brilliant idea on how to fix it. Just tweak the ending.
Three drafts that were each massive overhauls later, I published.
There’s AI slop being pushed on Facebook under your name. It is very much not your style or kind of fiction. This is probably the wrong place to place this comment, but I couldn’t find another way to contact you.
I’m apparently about 30k into the current wip out of the series that wasn’t supposed to happen. I haven’t actually checked word count on all the stories in there, but I have high hopes on this particular one not having distracting dependencies, so I should just be able to get through it and be done.