Drawing from the Well
Queries Sent: 0
Total Queries: 35
Rejections: 12
Scenes Mapped: 0
Total Scenes: 359
For all my good intentions, I didn’t get any writing done last night. I spent way too much time trying to track down some data on WordPress to figure some things out. I’m digging into the data so that I can make some refinements. I hope you guys like it.
Filling the Well
Bloodwitch: 46%
The Raven Boys: 90%
Guide to Literary Agents 2019: 97/332
As you can see, I updated the #ProjectBookworm2019 image above. I added the Prime Reading titles I’ve borrowed to my active TBR in Kindle. Lots to read. I need to pick up the pace.
Polishing the Well
It’s Father’s Day! Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I had a great day with my family at church, The Cheesecake Factory, and Dark Phoenix. It was a wonderful day.
And this little guy was one of my gifts. That goat screams when you push down on the stump. I LOVE him. He made me laugh so much and it’s a huge stress reliever. He makes me laugh every time I make him scream. I still need to think up an appropriate name for him. And I refuse to call him Billy. It’s too on the nose. I’ll think something up.
Lastly, today is an enormous milestone for the blog. Today’s post is SIXTY DAYS STRAIGHT! On top of that, it’s 130 posts this year and 150 all time. I’m pretty proud of myself for all this and look forward to many more posts to come.
Well Chat
The Way I Work
I’m big on levels of complexity. When I think about the universe itself (the real one), I consider everything from the subatomic to the intergalactic. Everything builds on each other. It’s the same in my writing: word to sentence to paragraph to page to chapter to Eighth to arc to book to series. From there, I needed a higher level of organization. I needed to build something. Something big.
And then all the inspiration came through that I talked about before. The biggest thing was the Cosmere. That was where I started getting ideas. I knew I wanted an interconnected universe, the question was how.
So I started low and started building up again. Character to city to country to continent to race to planet to galaxy. That’s all pretty straightforward, but I wanted something higher. The WHOLE universe felt too big so I needed something between that and galaxy, something to stratify the universe.
AH HA!
I’ve talked in this series about other parts of the Why. I wanted a plan that would lead to a cross-series novel event. I wanted a framework sufficiently simple and flexible that minor changes would account for all the magic I would eventually create. I wanted something that connected at least tangentially to my own faith system without waxing religious. I wanted everything related, connected, and unified.
And so I arrived at the Stratasphere.
Tomorrow we’ll finish off this series before moving into the final series of the month about alternative story structures. Stay tuned and Happy Father’s Day!
May the tide carry you to safer shores.
BSG