Rinn’s Run and Other Updates
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So, I recently visiting the website of an author I like and discovered that there is a real dearth of recent information. He’s published books that aren’t even listed on the site. I felt a moment of annoyance, which was immediately followed by a stab of guilt. I have no moral high ground to stand on when it comes to keeping things updated on my website. As a partial remedy for that, here are some updates.
On the space opera front, I have completed the first draft of Rinn’s Run: Zeren Intrigue. Yay! It runs about 84,000 words and change in its current form. I suspect that editing will trim that number down a little, assuming there are no major editorial changes required.
On the Writing Challenge front, I’ve written 77,650 words. That leaves about 9850 words that I must complete between now and the end of December. I suspect I can achieve this…just a feeling I get.
With the first draft of Rinn’s Run complete, what’s next? I’m going to take a pass at finishing Jericho Lott. I’m a little tempted not to because it’s been written piecemeal over the last four or five years. I’m honest enough to know that I’m a better writer now than I was four years ago. So, I’m probably looking at a more than usual amount of revision with it. Yet, with only 20,000 – 30,000 words left to write, it seems foolish not to finish it. Plus, I have a couple of sequels in mind for it. If I want to write those, I have to finish this one. Curse you, causality! I’ve got the whole revision phase coming up with Rinn’s Run, so that’ll eat up some time. As I can, I’m going to try to work on some Contingency Jones stories. He’s been lurking in the back of my head more and more recently, so I think it’s probably time. It’s also easier to write short stories than work on a completely new novel while you’re trying to edit and revise. After that, I’ll probably swing back around to either the Rinn’s Run sequel or the long-awaited sequel to The Midnight Ground. We’ll just have to see where things stand at that point.
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