I'm Only Making Plans for Nigel
Dec. 7th, 2013 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonLots of writing-related stuff going on here in JoncWorld!
--My primary work these last few weeks, when not working on The Persistence of Memories revision, has been getting the submission package ready for Angry Robot's Open Door. The last few days have been spent working on a two-page synopsis. I probably could have approached this one a little better by creating one from scratch; instead, however, I took a previously created eleven-page outline and edited the hell out of it until it made the two page limit. [![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dancinghorse, you may remember this outline from a previous read. I've since learned my lesson in brevity. :) ] The lesson learned here is to shape the synopsis down to the barest of detail. The second lesson is to work from the ground up, not from the roof down...it's probably a hell of a lot easier!
--Despite a few coding bumps in the road, I am now building what I'm calling my official author website. It's focused primarily on the trilogy and its universe (which I have now dubbed the Mendaihu Universe) and can be found here if you're curious. I'm currently having a few coding issues (on the WordPress side), but hopefully those should be ironed out soon.
--I'm attempting to do my daily 750 Words again, after not doing so for some time. I often do them during work hours, and Q4 has finally quieted down enough that I can squeeze it in over the course of the day. I'm hoping this will clean out the cobwebs and get some new creativity up and running again.
--It's December, and many music magazines have already posted their best-of-year posts, so I should probably start doing mine as well. Maybe start building the year-end compilation too.
--This also means that it's time for me to do a retrospective on what I've worked on writingwise this year, and my plans for next year as well. Let's just say future plans for 2014 are going to be quite productive, and hopefully fun and fruitful as well!
--My primary work these last few weeks, when not working on The Persistence of Memories revision, has been getting the submission package ready for Angry Robot's Open Door. The last few days have been spent working on a two-page synopsis. I probably could have approached this one a little better by creating one from scratch; instead, however, I took a previously created eleven-page outline and edited the hell out of it until it made the two page limit. [
dancinghorse, you may remember this outline from a previous read. I've since learned my lesson in brevity. :) ] The lesson learned here is to shape the synopsis down to the barest of detail. The second lesson is to work from the ground up, not from the roof down...it's probably a hell of a lot easier!--Despite a few coding bumps in the road, I am now building what I'm calling my official author website. It's focused primarily on the trilogy and its universe (which I have now dubbed the Mendaihu Universe) and can be found here if you're curious. I'm currently having a few coding issues (on the WordPress side), but hopefully those should be ironed out soon.
--I'm attempting to do my daily 750 Words again, after not doing so for some time. I often do them during work hours, and Q4 has finally quieted down enough that I can squeeze it in over the course of the day. I'm hoping this will clean out the cobwebs and get some new creativity up and running again.
--It's December, and many music magazines have already posted their best-of-year posts, so I should probably start doing mine as well. Maybe start building the year-end compilation too.
--This also means that it's time for me to do a retrospective on what I've worked on writingwise this year, and my plans for next year as well. Let's just say future plans for 2014 are going to be quite productive, and hopefully fun and fruitful as well!
