What’s up Doc?
Niklas pointed out to me the other day that I hadn’t updated in a while. Well, guilty on that count, but I have been feeling strangely blog-dry lately. Anyhow, since “writing” seems to be the flavour of the season right now, here’s a little look into what I’ve been working on.
- Kale’s Folly (working title): You could technically call this book four of the Halvard series. It’s four years since the events in The Timeless Land, and… oooh! something’s happening.
- Kinnel’s Prison/Azure Conclusion: Kinnel’s Prison was a short story I did based on an idea I had for a novel. I am currently working on fleshing the whole thing out. I have the basic story, all of the characters detailed out, the setting ready, but there are key missing bits.
- Azure Conclusion/WiRE: No, it’s not a typo. I haven’t decided if I want to use the Azure Conclusion concept in Kinnel’s Prison or keep it for WiRE. I can’t say anything more about WiRE except that I really love the idea. I even have the characters, but they have no names, so they’re a bit like stick figures at the moment.
- Kris and I (working title): This is going to be my first attempt at humour, if it comes off. I hope to work on this during NaNoWriMo 2008.
However, when all is said and done, if even one out all these ever gets completed, I will be happy!
~PD
16 July 2008 at 1:38 am
Well, since you did post after Niklas said you should, I guess I could forgive you for not using the much cooler topic he suggested( Regular Expressions in OpenOffice.org Writer).
16 July 2008 at 3:18 am
Ah well, lots of very interesting sounding stuff in the pipeline. Kale’s Folly is something I’d like to look forward to, though I most love the title ‘Azure Conclusion’.
Hadn’t heard of NaNoWriMo. Just saw the website, but what exactly is it?
I’m pretty sure you’ll complete all of them, not just one. I sure hope so. Will give me more good things to read!
16 July 2008 at 9:45 am
Would be really looking forward to some of this stuff. Do write faster, will you?
@ Swetank - NaNoWriMo is the best way to write a novel. You have to write and submit a full length novel and you’re just given the month of november to do it in.
16 July 2008 at 9:46 am
And yes, I would most definitely like to hear what you’ve got to say about regex in OO.
16 July 2008 at 9:50 am
NaNoWriMo is about writing a short novel with 50000 words during November. They explain it themselves rather nicely:
16 July 2008 at 10:02 am
I have not forgotten about Aizel. I am still waiting on Aizel.
Aizel.
AIZEL!
16 July 2008 at 3:09 pm
*pretends to not see the bits about regex and OpenOffice…*
@Marie: Thanks for the reminder; will put in Aizel in Kale’s Folly! But first I have to check I didn’t kill him in Timeless Land… *evil*
I’m also curious about what everyone else is writing. I know Swetank is writing, as are Niklas and Marie. Vinod, are you working on something too?
16 July 2008 at 5:21 pm
@Vinod & Niklas
Thanks guys. Helpful comments. Will check out further details on the website and get back to you in case I want more info.
16 July 2008 at 8:44 pm
I’m looking forward to these, but I haven’t heard much about the middle two! How long have you been interested in doing them?
Regex, regex? *brings it up again in all innocence*
The thing with NaNoWriMo is that you’re supposed to start with a story you’ve never written anything down about up until that point, except maybe notes. But, not real writing anyway. It is a large undertaking, but you’re not supposed to do *any* editing during. It is fun if you love to torture yourself.
*is trying it again this year*
16 July 2008 at 11:13 pm
I think I should get a preview of Aizel in book three.