At 76,782 words, the second-turned-first draft of The Fall is done.

I think you’re going to love it.

What Steven King does at this point (according to his book, On Writing) is put the manuscript away for six weeks. Me, I’m going to go back to chapter 1 and start tinkering. I didn’t finish a couple of scenes early on, and I realized later I’d left a few out. When it’s presentable, then I’ll put it away and work on something else: Daughters of Suralia, if my editor has lobbed it back at me, bleeding red pixels; Stranded, if not.

Stranded is, at this point, only 10% written. It started life as a 100-word story starter that I did for the CapClave writer’s workshop in 2012. Then I signed up for the writer’s workshop at MisCon 27, and expanded it for that. Now it’s one of the works I will write for Sky Warrior Books, which makes this author a very happy girl.

A story called Stranded set in Tolari space–I’ll let you use your imagination what it might be about. Currently, in the Tolari timeline, it begins during the half-season between the end of The Marann and the beginning of Daughters of Suralia, and I’d originally intended it to cover a period of about a (Tolari) year. Now–hm. I tinkered with the political timeline in The Fall, so… we’ll just have to see. It wants to be a YA adventure, with a new character you’ve never met, and that hasn’t changed, though some familiar players do show up. It’s going to be fun to write.

I will end this post with the timeline so far:
Into Tolari Space (#0.5) 
The Marann (#1) 
Stranded (working title) (#1.5) 
Daughters of Suralia (#2) 
The Fall (#3) 
(Farryn’s War)(#4) (Did I just write that out loud?)