May's Writing Progress
The big news this month is that I finished the first draft of The Dragons of Asdanund. It came in at 112,000 words. I've put it aside for a while before I start editing, to give myself a chance to forget what I think I wrote.
While I wait to forget, I wrote the first draft of a short story to use as a bribe to convince people to join my mailing list. I already have two sci-fi short stories for that purpose, which you can read by joining the list. I decided that this new story would fit into the continuity of one of my existing series or novels. I had to be careful about spoilers, because (depending on how you count them) I have four or five continuities, and no matter which one I picked, at least one subscriber won't have read it. So I decided the story would be about characters who don't appear in the books. It's set in the same world as the Dragonrider series and The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz, during the time of the Elangic Empire (which is ancient history in the books), and it explores the development of a magical device that plays an important role in one of the books. I haven't quite settled on a title yet. Early candidates are Theory and Practice and The Gap between Theory and Practice. (Referring to the joke about "the gap between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.")
While I edit the short story and start editing The Dragons of Asdanund, I'll probably also start writing a second adventure for Doctor Fung and Dan Barrister, my characters in the Fox Universe. I have most of the pieces for this. I just need to do a bit more planning to make sure they all fit together. The working title for this one is The Case of the Missing Spy.
(The continuities are: The Barefoot Healer, Dragonrider, The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz, Escape Velocity and Simon and the Birthday Wish. Dragonrider series and The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz can count as one, because they're set in the same world, about a thousand years apart.)
While I wait to forget, I wrote the first draft of a short story to use as a bribe to convince people to join my mailing list. I already have two sci-fi short stories for that purpose, which you can read by joining the list. I decided that this new story would fit into the continuity of one of my existing series or novels. I had to be careful about spoilers, because (depending on how you count them) I have four or five continuities, and no matter which one I picked, at least one subscriber won't have read it. So I decided the story would be about characters who don't appear in the books. It's set in the same world as the Dragonrider series and The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz, during the time of the Elangic Empire (which is ancient history in the books), and it explores the development of a magical device that plays an important role in one of the books. I haven't quite settled on a title yet. Early candidates are Theory and Practice and The Gap between Theory and Practice. (Referring to the joke about "the gap between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.")
While I edit the short story and start editing The Dragons of Asdanund, I'll probably also start writing a second adventure for Doctor Fung and Dan Barrister, my characters in the Fox Universe. I have most of the pieces for this. I just need to do a bit more planning to make sure they all fit together. The working title for this one is The Case of the Missing Spy.
(The continuities are: The Barefoot Healer, Dragonrider, The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz, Escape Velocity and Simon and the Birthday Wish. Dragonrider series and The Schemes of Raltarn and Tomaz can count as one, because they're set in the same world, about a thousand years apart.)
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