[#]WritersCoffeeClub 31Jan—How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?
So far: finished the final draft of "The Regicide Report" (Laundry Files book … 14?) and it's with the editors at Tor/Orbit.
Ploughing through the third and final draft of "Ghost Engine", a space opera. (About 50K words remaining to write, 112K words in the can.)
In the planning stages for "Starter Pack", a swords and planets romance, shared setting with "Ghost Engine". Aim to finish it this year.
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@cstross Looks like the post-Covid productivity is back up, hoorah!
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@bellinghman It's more like I'm having a post-Laundry rebound. Working on a 14-book series exclusively for years is soul-crushing.
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@cstross That too? Anyway, good to see
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@bellinghman The Laundry is roughly 1.75 million words at this point, and I'm a bit burned out on it at this point—surprising no-one, I'm sure. There may be more in the future, but I need a multi-year break doing something else while the well re-fills.
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@bellinghman I burn out regularly during multi-book projects (or even individual novels). The Merchant Princes was particularly bad, but I had an epic flameout wrt. the Laundry after writing "The Labyrinth Index" (forcing it out right after my father died). Couldn't write anything for nearly a year. I recovered, but it took a while.
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