"Hoppers," which needed massive revisions, is getting them as we speak, and I'm running it through a local critique workshop to see if the plot makes more sense now. Have you ever tried to write a story with time travel as a central theme? Jiminy Christmas, it is HARD! Having said that, I've also recently rediscovered my love for Doctor Who, and trying to do this at the same time has given me even more respect and admiration for the writers on that show. The episodes aren't always perfect, but still pretty damn good. This stuff is so, so tricky to plot. Gah!
I also have a new-ish WIP (meaning a handful of preexisting plot bunnies have joined forces, either for good or for evil, can't tell yet) that's reached 3k so far. Still early, but I have a new monster to play with (a burrowing parasite that feeds on negative emotions), ghosts, space ships, and a supernova. It's gonna be fun.
"The Fire Worker" is DONE, at least the first draft of it. Yay! I so love typing "The End" at the bottom of a manuscript. I know I still have proofing, editing, revisions, beta reads, and then the query-synopsis-submission process to look forward to. But none of that even takes place if you don't get to "The End" first. It was a hard place for me to reach, and I burned through several half-finished manuscripts before I got there the first time. I'm proud of it. Completion is something to celebrate.
Honestly, there's not much else going on with me right now. Well, it feels like not much, but really I have one novel in revisions, another in the beginning stages, a third resting, and a short story still out waiting its turn in the submission queue. But since I'm usually writing several things at once, it doesn't feel like much. It's weird, but I think it's good. We'll see.
Last book read: Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
Currently on: The Wayfarer Redemption, by Sara Douglas
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I picked up the first one just because I thought the cover was beautiful. For the rest, the plan is to check them out from the library. That's usually what I wind up doing with series.
Any particular reason you didn't care for the latter books? Offensive, or just bad writing?
The next two books... they sort of leave a lot from the first book behind. I realize that's not particularly odd in a fantasy trilogy but this is pretty extreme. Like to the point that a character that is set up as the main character from all book descriptions and the way the book plays out is sort of... not important at all. And I was not happy with what happened to them.
And the last three? Holy fuck they get weird. They diverge even further from that first book and leave even the next two behind. And what's more, only one character from those first three is really involved. A couple others SORT of are but... I don't know. If I had read them as their own books and not as an extension of this other mediocre series I wouldn't have felt so betrayed and let down, I might have even liked it (it had a slightly old school scifi story feel) but... yeah. They were not necessary to complete the tale and I think they detract from it.