By the Power of Greyskull, A Date Has Been Set!
Fuckit.
If I don't have HADRIAN finished(story wise) by December 1, I'm going to give up as a writer.
There is absolutely no excuse for this story taking as long as it has, and I'm tired of pussy footing around. December is good, because that gives me until around June to get the editing done and write out a timeline for the six years of warfare you don't see in the books.
I need a timeline, because the next two books, RITES OF BLOOD and (tentatively) IF IT BLEEDS... are going to have flashbacks to the war.
The war is not going to be over by any stretch of the imagination, in fact, the beginning of Rites of Blood is the Clansmen attack of Earth, but there is no need to write that stuff chronologically.
Now obviously the 'giving up as a writer' bit is a lie... but this is serious. For the current version of the novel it has taken me about two years to get here, as a whole, the story has been circulating in various forms for about seven years.
I specifically say December 1, because NaNoWriMo(National Novel Writing Month) is November. This gives me the Month of December(caps apparent) for writing and setting up everything that i want to happen in the Second Clan Invasion that is not directly seen in chronological order in RITES OF BLOOD.
I'm also thinking of changing the title of the first one from HADRIAN, to HADRIAN: DARK ONE, which is what the name Hadrian means.
from here on out I'm giving myself 2 years per book, unless the Publisher decides I get less time.
one year to write it, 6 months to rewrite it in Overhaul Editing Mode, and 6 moths for Final Editing Mode.
If I don't have HADRIAN finished(story wise) by December 1, I'm going to give up as a writer.
There is absolutely no excuse for this story taking as long as it has, and I'm tired of pussy footing around. December is good, because that gives me until around June to get the editing done and write out a timeline for the six years of warfare you don't see in the books.
I need a timeline, because the next two books, RITES OF BLOOD and (tentatively) IF IT BLEEDS... are going to have flashbacks to the war.
The war is not going to be over by any stretch of the imagination, in fact, the beginning of Rites of Blood is the Clansmen attack of Earth, but there is no need to write that stuff chronologically.
Now obviously the 'giving up as a writer' bit is a lie... but this is serious. For the current version of the novel it has taken me about two years to get here, as a whole, the story has been circulating in various forms for about seven years.
I specifically say December 1, because NaNoWriMo(National Novel Writing Month) is November. This gives me the Month of December(caps apparent) for writing and setting up everything that i want to happen in the Second Clan Invasion that is not directly seen in chronological order in RITES OF BLOOD.
I'm also thinking of changing the title of the first one from HADRIAN, to HADRIAN: DARK ONE, which is what the name Hadrian means.
from here on out I'm giving myself 2 years per book, unless the Publisher decides I get less time.
one year to write it, 6 months to rewrite it in Overhaul Editing Mode, and 6 moths for Final Editing Mode.
posted by Hadrian: Dark One at 3:08 PM
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