How did the the Luna book-writing fit into this, or will the other ones fit?
Given your professed preferences, you're going to hate the answer to this question: The Luna novel was fit into that space that has been occupied by up to 80,000 words of short stories (when added up) in previous years. The other two will fit into the same space in the following years. The optimism caused by managing to write the first novel in that time was slightly kicked into the oh-crap side of the meter by the fact that the revisions didn't seem to want to be done that way.
I did mention learning experience, right?
Also, do you plan to ever write a standalone, non-media-tie-in or shared-world novel? It doesn't seem to be in your business model, but do you think your head and heart will ever want to tell a one-volume story? Not counting your long short stories, that is. Hmm, or maybe I answered my own question. Hee!
My head is always telling me that something is going to be "short", for a very odd value of short :/. I originally started OATH/DEATH with the certain sense that it was -one- volume. I started the first four books as a -short- story. I started the entire SUN SWORD series certain that it would be two volumes.
Even House War is mutating :/.
In the next column, for want of a better word, I'll address the length of a series as an optimum, and the type.
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Date: 2004-08-25 10:39 am (UTC)Given your professed preferences, you're going to hate the answer to this question: The Luna novel was fit into that space that has been occupied by up to 80,000 words of short stories (when added up) in previous years. The other two will fit into the same space in the following years. The optimism caused by managing to write the first novel in that time was slightly kicked into the oh-crap side of the meter by the fact that the revisions didn't seem to want to be done that way.
I did mention learning experience, right?
Also, do you plan to ever write a standalone, non-media-tie-in or shared-world novel? It doesn't seem to be in your business model, but do you think your head and heart will ever want to tell a one-volume story? Not counting your long short stories, that is. Hmm, or maybe I answered my own question. Hee!
My head is always telling me that something is going to be "short", for a very odd value of short :/. I originally started OATH/DEATH with the certain sense that it was -one- volume. I started the first four books as a -short- story. I started the entire SUN SWORD series certain that it would be two volumes.
Even House War is mutating :/.
In the next column, for want of a better word, I'll address the length of a series as an optimum, and the type.