As much as I really, really hate to do it, I’m going to have to make some significant changes to my writing schedule and my overall goaling. This is largely due to a major uptick in the hours I’ve been working at the store–which are, in fact, incredibly insane hours as well as being very large in quantity. I’ve gone from the 10-20 hours I was working two months ago, when I started releasing my work in ebook form, to working nearly 40 hours a week (add in an hour at either end to each 7-9 hour shift for transit time as well) and fighting a constant battle to not completely lose my sanity.
This, of course, means that my writing has suffered a bit of a setback. I’m probably getting more writing done in the amount of time that I have to do it, but the time I’ve got to do it has been slashed severely. This may change after the holidays, but I’m going to be perfectly honest and say that there’s no way humanly possible to finish the rewrite of When All’s Said and Done by 1/15/12. I might be able to get the full draft of Epsilon: Redeemer done by then (the first 50K came in November–but since then, the story’s expanded beyond what I anticipated and the timeline itself for the universe has gotten twisted around a bit) and if I push I might even be able to finish the first draft of The Last Colony (more on that in a second) by the end of the month, but beyond that, it’s not going to happen.
I do have good news, however, and with the changes to the schedule comes an announcement. Book One of Awakenings, which I’ve been releasing as a fiction serial at awakenings.embklitzke.com, is nearing completion. After a bit of editing, I’ll be releasing it as an ebook through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords as edited copy with a few bonuses. I haven’t decided what, exactly, those bonuses will be, but it’s entirely possible that they’ll include the original Marin work, The Vision, which would have run on September 13, 2001 in my university’s newspaper…if the events of September 11 had never happened.
So the schedule, prior to this writing, was thus:
November 2011
- Write Epsilon: Redeemer first draft – 50,000 words (Nanowrimo project) – Deadline November 30
- Freewriting projects – Awakenings side story (Kira et. al.); UNSETIC Files
December 2011
- Redraft When All’s Said and Done (Deadline January 15)
- Freewriting projects – Awakenings side stories; UNSETIC Files
- Finish first draft of The Last Colony
- Finish additions to Epsilon: Redeemer draft (50k deadline made)
- Begin preliminary edits/replot of Princes of the Universe and associated cosm
January 2012
- Finish redraft of When All’s Said and Done (Deadline January 15)
- Begin editing of Epsilon: Redeemer
- Freewriting projects – UNSETIC Files, Epsilon shorts, Lost Angel shorts
Begin full draft of Beckett (UNSETIC Files)– On hold pending word regarding another project.- Begin full draft of third Epsilon book (Shattered? Sins of the Father?)
February 2012
- Begin editing of The Last Colony
- Begin redraft of Epsilon: Redeemer
March 2012
Finish first full draft of Beckett (Deadline March 15)– On hold pending word regarding another project.
Revised schedule:
November 2011
- Write Epsilon: Redeemer first draft – 50,000 words (Nanowrimo project) – Deadline November 30 – Done (at least the first 50k was done)
- Freewriting projects – Awakenings side story (Kira et. al.); UNSETIC Files
December 2011
- Freewriting projects – Awakenings side stories; UNSETIC Files
- Finish first draft of The Last Colony (deadline January 12)
- Continue Epsilon: Redeemer draft (Goaled at 85k words)
- Finish Awakenings Book 1, begin book 2
- Continue draft of When All’s Said and Done (New deadline: February 15)
January 2012
- Finish redraft of When All’s Said and Done (Deadline February 15)
- Begin editing of Epsilon: Redeemer (Week of January 23)
- Freewriting projects – UNSETIC Files, Epsilon shorts, Lost Angel shorts
Begin full draft of Beckett (UNSETIC Files)– Still on hold pending word regarding another project.- Begin plotting of third Epsilon book (Ren’s PoV)
- Edit Awakenings Book 1
February 2012
- Finish full redraft of When All’s Said and Done (Feb. 15)
- Begin editing of The Last Colony
- Begin redraft of Epsilon: Redeemer
March 2012
Finish first full draft of Beckett (Deadline March 15)– On hold pending word regarding another project.- Finish redraft of Epsilon: Redeemer (March 30)
- Finish editing The Last Colony
- Begin editing When All’s Said and Done (March 1)
Only time will tell whether or not this is a workable schedule (and it’ll be heavily dependant on my schedule at the store as well–but writing doesn’t pay the bills yet, so I have to keep the PTSL job).
If any readers have managed to wander out here, I welcome comments and whines about what you want to see me working on next! They do light a bit of a fire under me to keep me working hard at what I love to do, and encourage me to spend brainsweat on projects, despite their ups and downs.
You can find Erin on GoodReads these days @ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5211226.Erin_Klitzke And on Smashwords @ http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/EMBKlitzke
And Amazon @ http://www.amazon.com/author/erin-klitzke
