The Home of Forgotten Stories

I’m making good progress on The Sigil. I’ve actually got about nine chapters pre-written for this one. Much of it needs to be tweaked and put in a different order to really work for the story, but more to the point, it needs to be written. And left the hell alone for a while.

The reason I’m posting the chapters as I go is because this is the method I’m accustomed to, from writing fanfiction. I’m used to writing a chapter, getting it as tweaked and proper as it’s likely to get, and posting it for waiting readers. Then once it’s posted, it’s “done”, in a way. I can no longer make any significant changes to the plot as I go, because it’s been supposedly seen by readers, and making changes now would confuse them. I’m also encouraged to continue the writing in a timely manner, because, again, readers.

The fact that the readers are largely imaginary at this point makes no difference. I’m depending upon them just the same.

This is a helpful discipline when you are the type of writer who constantly second guesses herself, and frequently returns to the beginning of a story and either a) considers it total crap and throws it away or b) considers it really good and despairs of being able to follow it up with chapters that bear a comparison.

This is how I plan to get the book written. Once it’s written, I can review and edit a completed work–something I’ve never done before, hence Exciting!–and then repost it under the Novels page (which is currently empty, because I’ve completed no original novels as yet). Another plan: post the first few chapters and make the rest premium (paid) content. Yet another plan: self-publish on amazon. Yet a third plan: put it on Kickstarter and offer a hard copy if people want to invest in it. That third idea tends to work much better once you’ve got a following, so… I’m waiting.

And writing.