Updates
Somehow it's been three months since my last post, so I I thought I would give you all an update on things here at Cameron Darrow's Ye Olde Sapphic Fiction Emporium.
Yes, I'm still writing! Not to worry there. I've actually written quite a lot, I just don't know what of it you'll ever see. For most of the last year I was working on the third Alumita book, but I couldn't make it work. The sunk-cost fallacy bit me hard, and I kept trying to massage it and bend it until it was something serviceable. I rebooted (yes, rebooted, as in started over) it twice, even got other eyeballs on it for some preliminary feedback, but I had to throw in the towel. I was exhausted, and needed to put it away before I began to hate writing itself. Will I return to it? Maybe, but I needed to work on something else. Something different. So far, it's been the right choice!
No one is more frustrated than me about my lack of published output since finishing the Ashes books, but that failure is not from a lack of effort. Between the three projects I've actively worked on, including all the scenes I cut and rewrote (or not), I've written close to 150,000 words this year! Midnight Magic is around 70,000, for reference. I just haven't released any of them. Add on top of that a ton of real-life... issues... and it all adds up to nothing being published in 2023.
This isn't a pity party, however! It's just the process. A year ago I had to ask myself 'Now what?' after Pax Victoria came out, and answering it has just been a slow process of trial and error.
Take heart, though, friends! I finally feel like I'm in a reasonably good place creatively right now, and thus far the fruits of that labor have been sweet. I've been working on something different, and that change of pace (and thinking) has been good for me. It's a project that's been bubbling in the back of my head for awhile, and bringing it to life has been rewarding thus far.
But one thing I learned in the frustrated doldrums of the last year is that I shouldn't talk about projects until they're more mature. I've said a lot over the last year about what I'm working on and what the next book could be, and none of it's come to fruition. So I will try to remain mum on things so as not to avoid putting out expectations or building hype for something that might just fall apart. (Not to mention the f*cking AI thing, which was a waste of time and regrettable.) So I won't be mentioning specifics about a project until it's at least in beta-reader form from now on.
So all-in-all, I have been invisible but not idle! What official form my next book takes is yet to be seen, but there will be a next book. I've just had to work through some stuff. I appreciate your patience, and must ask for a little more.
Excelsior!
Yes, I'm still writing! Not to worry there. I've actually written quite a lot, I just don't know what of it you'll ever see. For most of the last year I was working on the third Alumita book, but I couldn't make it work. The sunk-cost fallacy bit me hard, and I kept trying to massage it and bend it until it was something serviceable. I rebooted (yes, rebooted, as in started over) it twice, even got other eyeballs on it for some preliminary feedback, but I had to throw in the towel. I was exhausted, and needed to put it away before I began to hate writing itself. Will I return to it? Maybe, but I needed to work on something else. Something different. So far, it's been the right choice!
No one is more frustrated than me about my lack of published output since finishing the Ashes books, but that failure is not from a lack of effort. Between the three projects I've actively worked on, including all the scenes I cut and rewrote (or not), I've written close to 150,000 words this year! Midnight Magic is around 70,000, for reference. I just haven't released any of them. Add on top of that a ton of real-life... issues... and it all adds up to nothing being published in 2023.
This isn't a pity party, however! It's just the process. A year ago I had to ask myself 'Now what?' after Pax Victoria came out, and answering it has just been a slow process of trial and error.
Take heart, though, friends! I finally feel like I'm in a reasonably good place creatively right now, and thus far the fruits of that labor have been sweet. I've been working on something different, and that change of pace (and thinking) has been good for me. It's a project that's been bubbling in the back of my head for awhile, and bringing it to life has been rewarding thus far.
But one thing I learned in the frustrated doldrums of the last year is that I shouldn't talk about projects until they're more mature. I've said a lot over the last year about what I'm working on and what the next book could be, and none of it's come to fruition. So I will try to remain mum on things so as not to avoid putting out expectations or building hype for something that might just fall apart. (Not to mention the f*cking AI thing, which was a waste of time and regrettable.) So I won't be mentioning specifics about a project until it's at least in beta-reader form from now on.
So all-in-all, I have been invisible but not idle! What official form my next book takes is yet to be seen, but there will be a next book. I've just had to work through some stuff. I appreciate your patience, and must ask for a little more.
Excelsior!
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