{"id":465,"date":"2017-10-22T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=465"},"modified":"2017-10-22T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:27:00","slug":"what-to-write-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"What to write next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week was a long, boring week. It seems that I’m not writing much, if at all. I’ve been thinking about doing NaNo, but it depends on when Grimaulkin Tempted<\/em> gets back from the editor. I can turn it around usually in two weeks, so that’s not a problem. The problem is I have no idea what to write for NaNo.<\/p>\n

I looked over War Mage<\/em> and I have 8K words there. Earth<\/em>, I have 3K. The other thought is to get Earth<\/em> finished for NaNo, since that’s what’s next on the publishing agenda.<\/p>\n

War Mage<\/em> is slated for May 2018, but War Mage<\/em> is like pulling teeth. I don’t want to offend anyone in the armed forces with the book, being that I’m coming at it from a non-combatant’s point of view. It’s not like I didn’t do any research on war–I’ve read four books on the Afghan war and two on Iraq. But I do admit it’s nothing like being in combat, and I somehow have to lie about that when I write. I’ve been told that the first scene of Homecoming<\/em> was very realistic, so I might be able to pull it off. It’s the little things, the slang, the acronyms, the military language that I don’t know. My target audience for War Mage is people who are interested in the military but want a fantasy element to it. Kind of like John Scalzi but with fantasy instead of sci-fi.<\/p>\n

Something–the muses, whatever–wants me to try something else. Memoir, perhaps, because memoir seems to sell well in this neck of the woods. The story in the anthology is based on a story my great-uncle told me about when he lived during Prohibition. (By the way, my story is first in the anthology, a place of honor, as I understand it.) I want to get away from the magic for a little while, not because I’m sick of it, but because I know it all too well. The memoir I have in mind is in three parts: Cancer, Death, and Autism. The title is Torn Asunder<\/em>. Maybe I’ll do it. I know NaNo is for fiction, but I want to do something that is lucrative. I don’t know if I have enough stuff to write it, and if I want to bare my soul yet (some people involved aren’t dead yet). But it could be only for me. And my posterity. I do want to get it down before I die, and the way things are going, I have about six years left.<\/p>\n

Okay, so I amend my first statement. I have a few options. We’ll just have to see what I end up with in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m going to try and write at least once a week on my writing blog. It might not always have to do with the game, even though I’m back to playing it again. I have too many characters in that game to keep track of now! And I keep making more! I’m addicted and need to stop. But I’ll try and write a short story once a week. I read a quote that if you write a short story every week, there’s no way you can write a bad short story 52 times in a row. So somewhere there’s going to be a diamond out of all that crap I spew out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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