Hrrm. In 2012, lots of life happened, and I ensuingly wrote less than some years.
- last third of TIWTBWO #2, bounced off test-readers and a couple of edit passes
- very minor edits to TISBWO #1 for continuity.
- first quarter or so of TIWTBWO #3 written and has had one through pass already
- edit pass on TISBWO and sent off; another one requested
- one edit pass on TISBWO prequel done, then it all fell apart at the end; half-way through another.
What I am happiest with accomplishing there is that TIWTBWO #2 has been a successful tautly plotted complex mystery for a number of readers, and won over a couple who had not much liked the first one, strongly prefer others of my projects, and were approaching reading it as a duty.
My plans for between now and the end of 2013 are:
- finish TISBWO prequel pass and send off
- then finish TISBWO edit pass and send off
- while doing these, as much work on TIWTBWO #3 as is necessary to keep my sanity
- after doing these and while awaiting responses, finish TIWTBWO #3. Which will likely be the bulk of the work, as I suspect that of taking about 100-120kwords new text and there will doubtless be edit passes involved.
- then dig out Really Big Backburner Project, read through it again, edit the last section, send to the loyal handful of betas who have been waiting for this to be complete since 1996, and decide whether I am ever going to do anything with it.
Technically, what i am looking to improve specifically is a) take the tighter plots with more cross-linking aspect of #2 and apply it to the larger scale of #3 and b) continue trying to expand the range of characters I am able to do.