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Tuesday. I hope.
Deep into the next Science officer. 38K before I start writing today.
Just wrote an intro to a new Chace Haig collection coming out in March. Got a lot of Action-Thriller shorts, so trying to get everything out of the trunk and earning rent. And I have a Chace novel that is currently being edited. Planning to write a few more of those this year.
Once Javier it done, it looks like the next Scattered Tribes might be a novel. Or a series of shorts. No clue, other than a lot of ideas to pursue, including a scavenger hunt/plot coupon book for #2. If shorts, you might get them. If not, something else.
Fan reached out about paper editions of the old Brak stories. Four of them. Kinda cringy to look at, but that was ten million words ago and I’m a lot better these days. Thought about extending that story, but the quality difference will be so jarring that anything will go into a Volume 2 instead.
And why the hell not? From Feet of Clay, the original campaign arc got REALLY weird. And that’s on top of a half-troll warrior. Best part, all five of those characters in the Brak stories were in the campaign. Brak the trollkin. Bob the Greedy. Princess the half-drow. Piper the wizard. And Sleipnir the Drider who tells Brak that he’s a special kind of centaur. Because he was. And Brak was that gullible.
It was one hell of a fun campaign, and the crazy shit is still coming. (“Flying Turtle Poop” is a potential title. Nuff said?)
got a lot of short material written in the early part of the month. Will continue to write more, as I have patreon and two magazines, so I have to add twenty new titles per year going forward.
Good thing I can.
Colder than snot outside. Staying indoors and writing and editing today. How are you getting through the winter?
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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