Hello again, everyone!
Another cool-down is fast approaching–and just in time, with respect to All Eyes, the draft currently absorbing most of my writing focus. Like I’ve said before, thriller fiction, scifi and otherwise, is a genre I’m still feeling out how to write well, and this latest bout is no exception. I’ve managed to hit what I believe is the halfway mark as of last night, as I promised myself at the start, so the main target is met, yet I’d hoped for more–again, something I’ve done plenty of times. One factor may have been doing into this project with less than my usual amount of outlining; overdoing such has led to lethargy in the past, so I kept it looser this time around. Just shows that inspiration can be elusive no matter the approach. At the very least, I’m at a much better jumping-off point when I return to the story (tentatively slated for late summer next year).
A bigger hurdle/delay has popped up in another area: For several reasons, the release of Trials, the second book in my Alternate History Cross & Flag series, has been paused once more, likely to the end of this coming week, or the next. Although formatting is the only serious work that remains, the delay is irritating, to say the least, all the more so when it’s past a deadline already changed multiple times, straining the limits of flexibility even for me. The draft is with a formatter at this very moment, so it should only be a few more days before it’s ready to upload; any news will of course be shared on my feed(s).
For the near future, it’ll be a mixed-bag of light work, up to the start of NaNoWriMo on November 1st. There’s a couple of short stories to be finished or outlined for, and several drafts in my “Pangaea” AH/fantasy series that need gap-bridging or other tweaks. It’s been almost entirely solid blocs of work on one project at a time this year, so maybe going a bit scattershot for a month or so will do me good ahead of the NNWM grind. I’ll keep you all posted on these, along with Trials; meanwhile enjoy the start of fall (maybe with a new read, courtesy of the latest KDP sale for Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race, starting 9/27?), and I’ll see you again in October!
Mark Anthony Ciccone 