{"id":6991,"date":"2017-03-31T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2017-03-31T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:08:45","slug":"writing-writing-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=6991","title":{"rendered":"Writing, Writing, Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a few updates on where I am with fiction writing, since it’s been over a year since The Water Lily Pond<\/i> dropped.<\/p>\n

  • The Water Lily Pond<\/em> is available for free download just for today. It’s gotten a couple of very kind reviews and has had a couple of hundred downloads. That’s about as well as I could expect, all things considered. I have been toying with creating a paperback, which Kindle now has easy tools for. However, putting it onto dead tree is a bit intimidating. I would like to make one more pass through the book. And I’d like to get more comments as I suspect a lot of people would have issues with the liberties I’ve taken in describing New York and the art scene therein.<\/li>\n
  • In terms of novels, there are two I’m tinkering with. Penumbra<\/i> is a novel I wrote most of a decade ago and then abandoned when it became clear it was a shadowy reflection of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/i>. But I’m not terribly worried about its commercial prospects, so I will probably resume it and either publish it cheap through KDP or serialize it here. Most of my novel time has gone into Umbra<\/i>, its sequel. But that too has been sidetracked now that a similar story is showing up in the highly successful The Expanse<\/i>.<\/li>\n
  • Much of my recent effort is on Oddish<\/i>, a seven-part series of short novellas that tie together. Part One (Ben Olson’s Restless Leg<\/i>) is mostly written, Part Two (Rachel Thorson’s Late Period<\/i>) is partially written. But I will not put it out on this site until all seven parts are written. In the middle of working on it Stranger Things<\/i> came out, which has some overlapping themes. But it’s still on the front burner.<\/li>\n
  • I have four short stories in the can. The first — Highest Noon<\/em> — I liked enough that I plan to submit it to a science fiction magazine. I have little hope but you can’t get shot for trying. It will show up here if it is rejected. The second — Perfect Justice<\/i> — needs a lot of work to not stink. But it and a companion post on “Rationalia” will show up soon. The third is a three part story — Dreams in the Long Dark, Co-Orbital<\/i>, and Table Manners<\/i>. It is done and I like the first part. It will show up on this site once it has been cleaned up. The final one — Lost by Translation<\/i> — may or may not show up. I’m kind of mixed on how I feel about it. At the very least, it needs heavy revision.<\/li>\n

    I know this sounds like excuse-making but, honestly, I’ve written more in the last year than I have in any previous year. That’s almost 40,000 words written in a year when I have been very busy with work and family and probably wrote a couple of hundred thousand about the election. So the purpose of this post is to just let you know: you’ll see the results soon.<\/p>\n

    Update<\/b>: After writing that, I had some second thoughts on Perfect Justice<\/i>. The story is the first I’ve written in epistolary form. But … this being the internet … I’m thinking of getting creative in its presentation. Hyperlinks and readthroughs might make it a little more fun for the reader.<\/p>\n

    Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So a few updates on where I am with fiction writing, since it’s been over a year since The Water Lily Pond dropped. The Water Lily Pond is available for free download just for today. It’s gotten a couple of very kind reviews and has had a couple of hundred downloads. That’s about as well … Continue reading Writing, Writing, Writing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[329,158,344],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-fiction","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1OL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}