The Unanswerable, which a lot of you have probably seen excerpts of over time, is finally being written. It has a 50-60k goal as a self-published novella about the "end of the world." It will be stand alone, but I might write about other people in the same world, but different area, different circumstances.
It is now 12,892 words done (7k of that was already written prior to Camp). It feels great to finally get some progress made in this story.
What's on my plate, besides Camp:
- Working with three other writers in a critique group - doing one-two chapter critiques a week for each person, as well as editing one-two chapters of Ruhe weekly.
- Received my edits back from Taryn. They are spectacular, but I have a lot of work to do. I'm still sitting on the new idea/replotting what has to be changed. I'm not even attempting these changes until post-Camp. So, July is Rioss rewrite month. I plan on getting it out to my six or seven beta readers as I make changes.
- August brings about the second Camp. I'll be completely rewriting Anthony's story A Good Criminal Heart. My seventeen year old writing was just not as good as my twenty five year old writing.
But The Unanswerable and "My Summer Vacation by Terrance Wade" will both be self-published. Which means, I have legitimate reasons for wanting to work on them. They are great stand alone pieces and attest to my capability as a writer. Not only that, but I think they are downright fun. And it's a good "test" to see if I can get an audience through self-publishing. If not, I'm saving my other three books for the real thing. I don't care how long it takes me, I am going to become successful at my craft.
Just you guys wait and see ;) I'm a very determined keyboard monkey.Or maybe a Golden Tamarin.
I love those.
