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seraphcelene) wrote2023-03-19 10:58 pm
seraphcelene) wrote2023-03-19 10:58 pm
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1 Book Behind - 2023 Reading Challenge
Wrapped up two more chapters today. Pushing into another one and, although it needs polishing, it's in the right place enough for me to move on into another chapter. Ultimately, that's three chapters down. Things are very linear right now because I'm connecting all the dots and trying to make sure that the transitions transition. I've made some heavy decisions back in January to cut a character who was WAY to easy to remove and spackling over her absence has been surprisingly NOT an issue. She featured more heavily in the back half of the book, so we'll see how it goes when I get there, but still not foreseeing too much issue with excising her.
Writing and editing are crazy interesting and I wish that I could just do this over and over.
Xiran Jay Zhao posted two reels on Instagram about the timing for the sequel to Iron Widow that had everything to do with how much she was paid for the first book and how those payments were distributed. It's a transparency into the publishing world that I deeply appreciate. I already know that the pay isn't great for like 90% of authors, but the way the money gets released was a new one for me.
She could not prioritize writing the Iron Widow sequel since she had to prioritize making enough money to feed herself. We can't all be EJK Rowling-King and make millions of dollars! Most of us won't. It's nice to see conversations about what reality looks like and then how to negotiate life around it.
I have a writing schedule, but honestly, with only 24 hours in a day, it's hard for me to work 8-10 hours, commute two hours, try to workout, read, eat, and get a sufficient amount of sleep. Folding writing into that list means that something has to get de-prioritized and rescheduled. Honestly, it's usually the workout or the sleep schedule.
Ha!
So, then I also read THIS article and ... yeah ... I already knew I'd be keeping my day job, but I'll be definitely keeping my day job.
Writing and editing are crazy interesting and I wish that I could just do this over and over.
Xiran Jay Zhao posted two reels on Instagram about the timing for the sequel to Iron Widow that had everything to do with how much she was paid for the first book and how those payments were distributed. It's a transparency into the publishing world that I deeply appreciate. I already know that the pay isn't great for like 90% of authors, but the way the money gets released was a new one for me.
She could not prioritize writing the Iron Widow sequel since she had to prioritize making enough money to feed herself. We can't all be EJK Rowling-King and make millions of dollars! Most of us won't. It's nice to see conversations about what reality looks like and then how to negotiate life around it.
I have a writing schedule, but honestly, with only 24 hours in a day, it's hard for me to work 8-10 hours, commute two hours, try to workout, read, eat, and get a sufficient amount of sleep. Folding writing into that list means that something has to get de-prioritized and rescheduled. Honestly, it's usually the workout or the sleep schedule.
Ha!
So, then I also read THIS article and ... yeah ... I already knew I'd be keeping my day job, but I'll be definitely keeping my day job.