Hey all. Not much to update you on this week.
Well, except for one teeny tiny thing:
The Ravage is finished!
Well, OK, the first draft of The Ravage is finished. As I’ve said before, this thing’s going to have to go through at least two edits before I’m even ready to show it to peer readers. Then once I’ve got some feedback from someone (or preferably a few someones), I’ll have to edit it a few more times again. And then, in a perfect world, I’ll be able to show it to a professional editor, who’ll be able to give me even more insight into what sort of changes it’ll need.
Long story short: this thing is a long way from publication. If it ever even gets there at all. Like, my most optimistic guess if it ever does get published would be, like, 2027 or 2028. My most pessimistic guess, of course, would be when hell freezes over, although that probably goes without saying.
The question now, of course, is what to do next. Well, I decided a few days ago that I’m going to take a short break from working on fiction, in order to focus on a personal project I’ve had going for a while. Some of you reading this might also read my other blog, Eric’s Room: over there, I’ve been publishing what I guess you could consider a memoir of my long and storied (?) undergrad career. The thing is, my progress on the last few chapters in that piece has gone at about the same pace as the continental drift: in the months since I became a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, I’ve joked that the last chapters of Seven Years a Viking (the memoir in question) have become my Winds of Winter. Those few people who care about those chapters have been kept waiting quite a while at this point.
But no longer.
Well, OK, a little bit longer. But for the next little while—a week, maybe two—I’m going to switch my focus entirely over to finishing Seven Years a Viking.
Once that’s over, it’ll be on to another long-delayed project: the new Nightmares Inc. ending. I’m hoping that’ll take two to three weeks to wrap up. In a perfect world, I’d be finished both of those by the end of February, so that by March I can get a start on Chronicles of Usibook 1 and of course the Kosanrewrite. Getting the new Nightmares Inc. ending and the Kosan rewrite out of the way will then clear up the long editing and rewriting backlog I have going on, which would allow me to spend the second half of this year editing and rewriting books like Keepers of Eternity, Dante’s Inferno and, of course, The Ravage.
Oh, and at some point I need to finish The 2nd Realm, too. Almost forgot about that one. That’s the one I was working on last fall. Got maybe 2/3 of the way through. Maybe I can work on that concurrently with the Nightmares Inc. ending. Guess we’ll see.
Anyway, that’s it for now. I’m feeling pretty good, having the first draft of The Ravage behind me. Don’t you worry, though: I’ve still got a mountain of projects to keep me busy.
Have fun, stay safe, and keep reading.
