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Now that I am back home, my year-long ban on writing original fiction is up. (Short story: Wrote a 100K novel for my senior project. Burned out. Narnia saved my sanity.) Which means that I am very tentatively thinking about poking at the originals again. Tentatively! As I think I just mentioned, it has been a year since I did an original. (Actually, slightly less? We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of PC's release date. LOOK, I AM EASY.)
I still don't think I'm up to going back to Spaceforce, though, although I think I have figured out a way to tell the past story and the present story side-by-side. (I have been contemplating the idea of having one of the POVs be that of an embedded reporter on the USSS North Carolina, which is something you don't see a lot in military fiction or sci-fi, but it is something that occurs fairly often in the real world; a lot of the books I read while I was doing research for Spaceforce were written by embedded reporters in Iraq.)
But what I do want to write is the colonial fantasy story, although I'm a bit uncertain about how to start it. Lady Lucy Loring and her kids and worldbuilding and imperialism, yay! Maybe. If I get more of a plot. It has been a long time since I've written originals.
And there are, of course, other things -- there's the original version of the werewolves and immortal!Susan, and older stories I haven't touched in an age -- Corinth High, Ellis and LaMontaine, various mysteries, a lot of urban fantasy.
Probably the colonial fantasy, though.
On the other hand, I'd like to turn out some short stories and make a try at sending them out, it's just that I don't think in short stories, I think in novels.
I still don't think I'm up to going back to Spaceforce, though, although I think I have figured out a way to tell the past story and the present story side-by-side. (I have been contemplating the idea of having one of the POVs be that of an embedded reporter on the USSS North Carolina, which is something you don't see a lot in military fiction or sci-fi, but it is something that occurs fairly often in the real world; a lot of the books I read while I was doing research for Spaceforce were written by embedded reporters in Iraq.)
But what I do want to write is the colonial fantasy story, although I'm a bit uncertain about how to start it. Lady Lucy Loring and her kids and worldbuilding and imperialism, yay! Maybe. If I get more of a plot. It has been a long time since I've written originals.
And there are, of course, other things -- there's the original version of the werewolves and immortal!Susan, and older stories I haven't touched in an age -- Corinth High, Ellis and LaMontaine, various mysteries, a lot of urban fantasy.
Probably the colonial fantasy, though.
On the other hand, I'd like to turn out some short stories and make a try at sending them out, it's just that I don't think in short stories, I think in novels.