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December 2011

MPF 2.07 – Norris Tilney and the Docks of Dover

New story time!

This one’s been kicking around for some time. Last year, Scott Roche and I co-wrote a novellette we called “The Battle of Wildspitze“. I’ve been trying to decide how to explain that world to people, and I think I have a concise way of summing it up.

  • Harry Potter.
  • But everyone knows about magic.
  • And it’s 1910.

And that’s basically it in a nutshell. One of us had come up with an idea for a short story regarding dragon-riding pirates raiding airships, and we started writing. I had originally thought that this would be a parallel world, no really recognizable people in it, until Scott introduced Baron Richtoffen as one of the pirates. That single character nailed the setting, the attitude, and the timeline for me.

This is a preview of MPF 2.07 – Norris Tilney and the Docks of Dover. Read the full post (197 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Back in the Saddle…

Back in the writing saddle, that is.

Hearing Matt Forbeck’s goal of writing 12 books in 12 months is both scary and inspiring. Basically, Matt is shooting to do a NaNoWriMo-length novel of 50,000 words every month in 2012. It’s made me sit down and start calculating what it would take to hit a million words in 2012. The number is surprisingly small – 1000000 – four NaNoWriMo projects (200,000), minus the shorts I’ve already written for MPF (just north of another 52,000) = about 750,000. Divide by the number of writing days I’ll have in 2012 (313) and I come up with 2,400 words a day. Wolfram Alpha puts it at 2396.16. But what’s 3.84 words among friends?

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Keeping the Worlds Straight

This morning, I started counting up the universes that I’ve got planned out and am currently writing in, or that I have stories that I plan on coming back to – recurring universes, as it were. So far, here they are:

  1. The Sinner – my two weird west stories- High Moon and The Devil’s Due.
  2. Sparks and Spells (that’s a tentative name) – the alt history fantasy/manapunk pre-WWI universe – Battle of Wildspitze and Finding the Fire. (This is the universe that Scott Roche and I are sharing / writing in.) New stories coming from both of us soon.
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GSG NaNo Gaiden Ep #31

So, it’s December 1st, and another 30 days of crazy writing is behind us.

What now?

That’s a fantastic question. I have a couple of suggestions, and a couple of announcements. The short answer is this: keep your eyes on this web site. Because GSG is coming back. And because by the end of December, you’ll start seeing longer fiction here. And because there will also be regular short stories now that the craziness of NaNoWriMo is behind us.

If you need help getting your text to Amazon / BN / Smashwords / etc: Flying Island Press

This is a preview of GSG NaNo Gaiden Ep #31. Read the full post (135 words, 2 images, estimated 32 secs reading time)