18 May
Plotting, Poetry, and Missions
Just a quick update on the writing projects. Although I haven’t managed to do any more research on becoming my own publisher (as in, open up my own small press to publish my own books (see my recent blogs on “My mission for 2010″: http://blog2.natalieallan.co.uk/?p=120 and http://blog2.natalieallan.co.uk/?p=123)), I have, however, cracked the whip on the writing projects and they seems to be going fairly smoothly.
I now have 50+ poems (half of which are edited and finalised) for my book of collected poems I intend on publishing in 2011 (not bad, to say I only started working on this batch in February), and I need about 150 to 200 more so the book is average paperback size. So far, I’ve been writing 2-3 poems a day, four days a week. I estimate I should have enough poems for my book by the end of September. I’ve already begun the design of the cover and the typesetting of the internal pages. It’s really exciting!
I’m plotting a new novel as well. This one is the backstory for “Village of Vampires”, the novel I already have in 4th draft, and was originally going to be a novella on some of my characters to help refine the nitty-gritty details about them so I could finally finish this draft. And as all the best laid plans go to waste, this book seems to be turning itself into a novel, and there’s so much prize information in there, “Village of Vampires” looks to be its sequel and the new novel needs to be (written) and read first in order for the reader to understand it! It’s an integral part of the world-building also. So once again, “Village of Vampires” has been put on the back burner. But at least this project is remotely relevant to it!
The things we do for our characters…
What are you writing right now?
