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Sep. 23rd, 2014
This makes me feel like a fraud and a failure, but I'm looking at the thing and realizing that I simply do not have the time to do the idea the justice it deserves. Not only that, but it's going to be much longer than the guideline limit. My outline is completely inadequate, and I haven't properly explored in my head who these characters actually are and what makes them tick. When I'm ten thousand words into a project like this, that is a problem.
So. I will write this, because now that I'm partway into it, I desperately want to. It is a cool idea. It might even be a novel idea. But there are other things with deadlines I can actually hit that need my attention, so I need to scribble them first--and then give this the attention it needs without a deadline I can't hit hanging over my head and three other projects demanding my time.
And it's not like the story or the outline will disappear into the ether if I set them aside for a bit. I can still be noodling it even while I'm doing these other things.
So. My writing schedule looks like this, now:
Blurring the Line: up to 5000 words, horror, due Oct 31.
The Lost Worlds: up to 20000 words, steampunk post-apocalyptic horror, due, uh, well. It doesn't say. "Extended until filled." I'll probably do this last.
Temporally Out of Order: up to 6000 words, SFF, due end of November. Once they open and give us the guidelines, I'll do something with it. Maybe an Alex story, that would be hilarious.
So. I will write this, because now that I'm partway into it, I desperately want to. It is a cool idea. It might even be a novel idea. But there are other things with deadlines I can actually hit that need my attention, so I need to scribble them first--and then give this the attention it needs without a deadline I can't hit hanging over my head and three other projects demanding my time.
And it's not like the story or the outline will disappear into the ether if I set them aside for a bit. I can still be noodling it even while I'm doing these other things.
So. My writing schedule looks like this, now:
Blurring the Line: up to 5000 words, horror, due Oct 31.
The Lost Worlds: up to 20000 words, steampunk post-apocalyptic horror, due, uh, well. It doesn't say. "Extended until filled." I'll probably do this last.
Temporally Out of Order: up to 6000 words, SFF, due end of November. Once they open and give us the guidelines, I'll do something with it. Maybe an Alex story, that would be hilarious.