My Biggest Project Yet
I’m spending 2024 doing some tidying up. Essentially, I’m going through all my old projects, my forgotten manuscripts, things I wrote ages ago and put away in a cloud folder somewhere, and I’m doing some spring cleaning. I made a plan at the start of the year, which you can read about here, and I’ve stuck to it, and honestly, I’ve managed to be very efficient, which you can read more about here!
So far, I’ve gotten through a lot of stuff. Two major projects have been gone through, revised, edited and polished to the point that I’m querying them to publishers and indie presses, and another small project is away with my editors. In between all of this, I’ve also managed to keep my writing brain happy by producing and submitting some short fiction to a couple of open calls. All in all, my plan has worked really well.
Then came this months project. My biggest one yet.
The thing I’m working on now, is a weird, science-fiction thriller I started almost exactly two years ago. I finished the first draft in October, 2022, and I haven’t looked at it since. It’s longer than anything I’ve ever written, bigger, strange, more complex, and… I don’t even know where to begin.
So far, I’m just reading. Reading and taking notes. It’s been two years since I looked at it last, so I need to familiarize myself with the content. What the hell is it about? Who are the characters? Is it fun? Is it exciting? Does it make sense? Spoiler alert: It does not. Not yet.
But as I’m reading through this and taking notes for future edits, I’m wondering: What do I do with this? Do I try to finish it? Polish it and make it make sense, so that I can send it off to people or self-publish it? This is a much bigger undertaking than the projects I’ve revised, edited and polished earlier this year, and I fear it might not be an as easy task.
At the same time, it’s the last one. At least the last big one. (There are always a few short stories lying around that I’ve forgotten about, things I could whip into shape if I had the will, want and need for it). If I get through this, I would be “done” with my spring cleaning project. I would be free!
I would be free!
But it’s going to be some battle. The other projects I worked on earlier this year felt easy compared to this. They were better drafted, made more sense, and I had a vision for what to do with them when they were done. I knew exactly where to send them, I had a plan for where I wanted them to go. With this Super-Big-Weird-SciFi-Project, I’m not so sure.
I think I’ll keep working on it. I’m definitely going to finish reading through it, and then after that, I’m hoping I have enough notes and enough interest that I’ll just turn right around and revise it. I’m good at blackmailing myself into working like that – wouldn’t want to leave something unfinished. (I know, I know, that’s the whole reason I started this spring cleaning project in the first place, shut it!)
After that, we’ll see what happens. Who knows, maybe it all just comes to me and everything will be alright in the end? What do you think? Let me know in the comments!
As always – I’d love it if you checked out my crime novels, my psychological thriller At The Gate, and short stories. There’s dark fantasy, creepy science-fiction as well as lovely spec-fic story about death. Honestly, a little bit for everyone.
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