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hrjI'm working on a number of writing-related projects at the moment, but there's nothing to actually show for it yet. But just to feel like I've been doing something, here's the list:
* Created abridged version of my Arthurian short story "The Treasures of Britain" to perform at Beltane as part of an A&S competition.
* Did light revisions on my long-neglected short story "Hoywferch", the first in a series of possibly 4 connected shorts that I bill as "The Mabinogi … but with lesbians!" I'll be posting an excerpt from it (just short of half the story) as part of a chained-blog-publicity-thingie in June, possibly with the full story going into a related (free) collection.
* Working on one of the "pick-a-topic" blog posts promised to my 99th and 100th Twitter followers, on the topic of "Roadblocks to Romance: Writing in Dialog with Austen and Heyer".
* Posted a comment on someone's blog and ended up being invited to write a guest-blog there on the topic of thematic and pragmatic differences between lesbian-themed fantasy published by lesbian presses versus by major fantasy publishers. (This one will need research.)
* When I have a breathing space, need to poke my other winning Twitter follower about what topic they want me to write on.
* Over halfway done with the first-round revisions to The Mystic Marriage and expect to be able to send it out to beta-readers in mid-May. (Those interested in being beta-readers should contact me.)
* Pitched a proposal for a collection of my "skin-singer" stories from Sword & Sorceress to be completed with a new novelette, for which I now have a detailed and complete outline. (But I'm not allowed to start writing it until Mystic Marriage is out for comment.)
* Getting waaaaaay ahead of myself, I've been playing with an idea for a "parallel-to-series" Alpennia story with a YA spin that overlaps half of Book 3. (So if I write it, I'd be writing it after Book 3, but would need to have essential parts outlined so that they could be set up properly in Book 3.) I'm honestly not sure whether I'll do this or not, but there are some interesting characters infiltrating my brain in the mean time.
* I've half-promised a blog post on Alpennian names and linguistics, which would be quite easy to write, but I feel like I should do the specifically promised posts first.
* A discussion in a fb group on "lesfic" as a specific literary genre defined by style and a shared inventory of tropes led to an encouragement for me to do something more rigorous in this line. Possibly. I'm not really up for doing a lot of reading of contemporary-setting lesbian romance and mystery/thriller stories in order to do analytics (just not into fiction with contemporary settings) but I might do something a bit more superficial based solely on book catalog blurbs.
* Created abridged version of my Arthurian short story "The Treasures of Britain" to perform at Beltane as part of an A&S competition.
* Did light revisions on my long-neglected short story "Hoywferch", the first in a series of possibly 4 connected shorts that I bill as "The Mabinogi … but with lesbians!" I'll be posting an excerpt from it (just short of half the story) as part of a chained-blog-publicity-thingie in June, possibly with the full story going into a related (free) collection.
* Working on one of the "pick-a-topic" blog posts promised to my 99th and 100th Twitter followers, on the topic of "Roadblocks to Romance: Writing in Dialog with Austen and Heyer".
* Posted a comment on someone's blog and ended up being invited to write a guest-blog there on the topic of thematic and pragmatic differences between lesbian-themed fantasy published by lesbian presses versus by major fantasy publishers. (This one will need research.)
* When I have a breathing space, need to poke my other winning Twitter follower about what topic they want me to write on.
* Over halfway done with the first-round revisions to The Mystic Marriage and expect to be able to send it out to beta-readers in mid-May. (Those interested in being beta-readers should contact me.)
* Pitched a proposal for a collection of my "skin-singer" stories from Sword & Sorceress to be completed with a new novelette, for which I now have a detailed and complete outline. (But I'm not allowed to start writing it until Mystic Marriage is out for comment.)
* Getting waaaaaay ahead of myself, I've been playing with an idea for a "parallel-to-series" Alpennia story with a YA spin that overlaps half of Book 3. (So if I write it, I'd be writing it after Book 3, but would need to have essential parts outlined so that they could be set up properly in Book 3.) I'm honestly not sure whether I'll do this or not, but there are some interesting characters infiltrating my brain in the mean time.
* I've half-promised a blog post on Alpennian names and linguistics, which would be quite easy to write, but I feel like I should do the specifically promised posts first.
* A discussion in a fb group on "lesfic" as a specific literary genre defined by style and a shared inventory of tropes led to an encouragement for me to do something more rigorous in this line. Possibly. I'm not really up for doing a lot of reading of contemporary-setting lesbian romance and mystery/thriller stories in order to do analytics (just not into fiction with contemporary settings) but I might do something a bit more superficial based solely on book catalog blurbs.
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Date: 2014-05-02 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-05-02 06:59 pm (UTC)Not only (a) do I have a derth of access to good English fiction, (b) I don't think I have the patience to wait till publication for the next instalment of the story, and (c) as Gwen gets older I'm beginning to realize the importance for me to integrate stories like this into her reading repertoire, because, yes, unfortunately, I still have to get over my knee-jerk reaction sometimes, and I want her to grow up without ever cultivating that reaction to anyone's choice of love, and one of the best ways to do that is to populate her with appropriate reading material. The SCA went a long way towards making me far less bigoted than I could've been given my upbringing, but I want to do whatever I can to make it so that she doesn't ever think twice about these things, as it should be.
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