April Already...

I finished a complete rewrite of The Teardrop Game last year, and I'm quite happy with it. With that finished, I needed a break from Finn's world for a while.

I have a new diary style story that I intended to be a quick novella but has grown into something rather more extensive. At 76,000 words, it's still in progress and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I do intend to wrap it up soon, though, and get back to the trilogy.

 >> read it online for free

Trilogy Update

I'm not sure I've ever had a year fly by quite like 2012 has. My writing goals have shifted, but not changed too dramatically. Here's what I've done:

• My blog style novella is finished, and available to read online (for free):
  http://vitzy.com/story/

• Although my initial plan was to write the third book in the trilogy, then rework the first a bit, I got 20,000 words into the third and had an epiphany about my main character, and how the first book was limiting the whole series a bit.
  
  So... I pitched the entire first book (again) and started over. I'm now just over 100,000 words into the rewrite, and I'm very excited about it. I think it's a much stronger story than the original, both in terms of characters and plot.

I am determined to get a draft finished by the end of 2012. But the third book in the trilogy will be a project for next year.

Trilogy

I'm still working on my blog-style novella, but I've also started a new novel. With the sequel to the Teardrop Game done, I feel compelled to write a third. And I'm excited to write a third. I think my writing goals for 2012 will be the following:

• finish Another Year or Two
• finish the third book of the Teardrop Game series
• rewrite (again) the first section of the Teardrop Game (I've reread this recently and realized it is more or less irrelevant to the rest of the book. *sigh)
• clean up all three books and see what I have

Should be fun.

Something Else Entirely

I've decided to take a new approach to writing my next novel. Basically, I'm going to write the whole thing online, using a blogging platform to create posts by multiple characters.

If you'd like to learn more about what I'm doing, how and why, see this page.

To start reading, just to go vitzy.com.