#PennedPossibilities 732 — Is your WIP a singular novel, a series of books, serial fiction, comics, or fanfiction? (Or something else entirely? Explain.)
Of that list, I've written everything except comics. I've no talent as an illustrator and don't know someone I could approach. I've set fanfiction aside for now, but I wrote extensively there to perfect my style (and because I needed immediate feedback).
Let's see what I'm up to:
- Reluctant Moon is a long spicy romantic SF novel, likely to weigh in at about 150k words.
- Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) is a novelette that I am just starting to write, over and over again. First chapters sometimes require multiple rewrites if you are looking for a certain set of feelings.
- Reluctant Accomplice and Reluctant Fighter will be short novels in the region of 40k, but I'm not actively adding to them at the moment. Both are about 50% complete, but deal with the same character (the Devil-girl) at different times in her life. It will be a series of related books, aptly named the Reluctance Series. You may notice a common theme in the titles? Reluctant Courier is a side story to the Devil-girl stories featuring a breakout supporting character named Bolt. The moonshot that is chronicled in Reluctant Moon is mentioned 200 years later in Reluctant Accomplice.
- Mars Needed Women is the closest thing to hard SF I am capable of writing. It is a short novel of 33k that is currently in the hands of beta readers.
- Inklings is a spicy magical fantasy story about a shy girl raised by wolves who is ackwardly discovering she likes people one cringe-worthy incident at a time. It is a singular standalone short novel, but I've written a number of very short stories with totally different characters in what I call the Wands Universe—and posted them on Mastodon. (See my pinned samples post.) I think of it as on hiatus at the moment, but I know the entire story and could get the urge to complete it at any time.
- Through Blood and Tears is a 13-15k novella written years ago but never published, which on recent inspection I realized needed to be rewritten in 1st person. I have added it as another Scrivener project. It is actually a side story for a fantasy trilogy, but I think I can publish the lesbian vampiric coming of age story standalone.
Yet, I am not writing continuously. Maybe I should dream up another project to add?
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