Musings & Ramblings Writing Update

A wild unicorn of an opportunity appeared!

The reference is deliberate because of the opportunity being in the gaming realm (though not that company).

This is the type of thing that pays your bills for the entire year for less than a year’s work and still offers freedom to pursue other projects.

I’m putting a significant amount of focus on landing this one, and while I don’t believe the universe is necessarily against you, my work schedule and deadlines are keeping me tied down.

I have some work-related things I need to have done by May 1st and need to push back my next novel because I’m not able to give it my all for the last few polish passes.

Crown of the Orphic Queen is the type of story I have a weird feeling about. Not in the egoistic sense, but there’s something special here. It’s one of my favorite novels I’ve done. Taking a 5,000-word poem and stretching it into a modern take the length of a full novel is a Herculean task (Was that dad-joke-level bad?)

Rushing something like this leads to slop-level drivel. While the editing is essentially done, I always go back over my books before release to make the prose glint like a far-off lighthouse on a dark sea. My particular author voice might be heavy-handed at times, so clunky is not out of the question in my books, and I always go back over it. But yes, some sentences are run-on sentences for stylistic reasons.

But polishing too much leads to uniformity in the text, meaning there are no unique qualities that stand out. Care is needed.

The Candle’s Edge: In Lunar Glass is a novel that I’ve edited as I go. The fun of writing is trying different methods.

But the elephant in the room is that I’ve got to get better about setting realistic timelines.

Yet, I also do not believe in … we’ll just say Kvothe-level excuses for why a book is not coming out.

Deadlines in the independent art world don’t really mean too much like in professional-work settings and the less glamorous writing world where you can’t write lyrical prose.

If I was serving art to millions upon millions, then I’d sing a different tune about it.

A high-pressure launch doesn’t apply to my novels, so I like that flexibility.

I do not force out my writing or editing. When it works, it works.

When other things need focus, then other things need focus.

I’m not at the level where millions of people would be upset that I took ten years to write a book, so the flexible nature is safe for now.

It shall release when the stars align for it. My stars aren’t aligning just yet.

As with all things in life, patience is a must.

But, as always, I’m happy writing!