{"id":964,"date":"2017-10-01T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-10-01T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:42:51","slug":"my-writing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/my-writing-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"My writing plans for Autumn 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in CZ this summer, not only was I editing my scifi novel and my logic textbook, I also started two new works of fiction, intending both of them to be short stories that I could finish in a matter of weeks. As it turns out, I didn&#8217;t touch them again&#8211; until yesterday. Which is perhaps appropriate. They are October stories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_965\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2229.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-965\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2229-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"size-large wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2229-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2229-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2229-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn in Gatineau Park. My own photo, from 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They take place in the same world as my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/fellwater\/\">Fellwater: The Hidden Houses novels<\/a>, although they are set in a different town and they feature different characters. It felt good to return to &#8220;my world&#8221; again. A hint: one of them features Urania, the muse of philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers; and it starts with her having a conversation with Nicholas Copernicus.<\/p>\n<p>I have not yet heard back from any of the publishers I approached, back in the spring, with a pitch for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-im-writing-science-fiction-now\/\">my scifi novel<\/a>. I know the publishing industry and I know these things take time. Now that it&#8217;s October, I will probably never hear back from some of the big-name New York agents I approached back in June (such as Tor). But that&#8217;s okay; the publisher I originally wanted is a mid-size indie, owned by a friend of mine, and they&#8217;re reading the whole manuscript right now.<\/p>\n<p>By the way&#8211; I originally called it &#8220;Lorelei&#8217;s Planet&#8221; but I&#8217;m considering different titles. What do these possible titles make you think of?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Starshot Race<br \/>\n&#8211; The Nightfall Equation<br \/>\n&#8211; The Terminus Equation<br \/>\n&#8211; The Razor&#8217;s Edge<br \/>\n&#8211; Where There Appears To Be Nothing<br \/>\n&#8211; After Starlight<br \/>\n&#8211; After The Darkness<br \/>\n&#8211; The Verlassen Discovery<br \/>\n&#8211; The Distance<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_966\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170807_212611.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-966\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170807_212611-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170807_212611-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170807_212611-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_20170807_212611-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Probably the planet Venus, setting over the hill south of Krenicna, CZ, August 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While I wait, I can work on the beat-sheet for the sequel. And I can work on these other novels. And on a nonfiction project about ecology and enlightenment, which I also worked on this summer while in CZ.  And on&#8211; well, you get the idea. <\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way&#8211; you can help me. <\/strong> By buying my books, writing reviews on Amazon (even if only one sentence, that&#8217;s all they need), and telling your friends about my work. (You heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/reclaimingcivilization\/\">I published a new one<\/a> two months ago, yes?) I do as much marketing as my time and money allow, but it isn&#8217;t much. I don&#8217;t expect to become a big-name celebrity intellectual. But I do hope that more people will read my books, think about them, study them, discuss the ideas in them with friends, occasionally criticise them.<strong> I&#8217;d like to see a community of sorts formed around the ideas in my books<\/strong>: made up of people who live according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/what-do-i-teach\/\">the questions and the values<\/a> raised in them.<\/p>\n<p>And please accept <strong>my most sincere thanks<\/strong> for your ongoing support of my writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in CZ this summer, not only was I editing my scifi novel and my logic textbook, I also started two new works of fiction, intending both of them to be short stories that I could finish in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/my-writing-plans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendanmyers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}