Well, the edits for Book #4 in the Inheritance of Magic series are finally in! I read through them on Wednesday and started work on them on Thursday.
The good news is that none of the suggested changes are all that major, and most don’t seem as though they’ll take a gigantic amount of time or effort. That said, the delays have impacted things a bit. There are some suggested changes (mostly along the lines of “can you rewrite this scene?”) which I might have been willing to do back around December in the immediate aftermath of the book, but which I don’t really want to do now. The longer the gap between first draft and edits, the more a story tends to ‘set’ in your mind, and the more work it takes to make significant changes. So I’m probably going to make fewer editorial changes than I would have done otherwise.
Even so, I doubt getting through these edits will be fast – in all likelihood it’ll keep me busy for the next few weeks – which means that Book #5 is going to have to be set aside for a little while. Luckily, since I just reached the halfway mark, I’m at a natural break point, so this is a fairly convenient place to take a pause. So my current plan is to do the edits, then get back to Book #5. Hopefully I should be able to get started on the second half of that by early next month/middle of next month, with the aim of finishing Book #5 by around end of summer.
In the meantime, on this blog, I’ll be starting a new mini-series of worldbuilding articles on Sigl Fashion, covering the ways drucrafters in this setting wear, bear, or carry sigls. This’ll be three parts long, and will run from the beginning to the end of May. Hope you find it interesting!
I’m glad you finally got the edits back! Hopefully none of the proposed changes affect things you’ve already written for book 5?
It better not otherwise his forced to write a second draft
The edits I make are going to be limited by what I’ve already written in book 5 – which sometimes means I won’t make changes which I might have done had I had the suggestions earlier. That’s just how it goes; time’s a limited resource, and I have to pick and choose how I spend it.
Will Stephen use a bicycle in this book? I thought it would be a cool combination of his Lightfoot and strength sigl.
Great news! It’s great when you are on schedule with the tasks you need to do!
Out of curiosity what do you intend for the next topic in the Beginners Guide to Drucraft? I myself am interested in Primal and Dimension since we haven’t seen them a lot and I love the associations, and planets they are associated with it’s been a real treat!
But regardless any worldbuilding article is very informative, hopefully one day you can do one on the Cults major and minor, it would be interesting to see what eras where the Order of the Dragon and Warband were on top.
Kevin, the answer to your question is literally spelled out in the exact post you’re replying to.
Don’t know if you saw my last response because I don’t think it was in the reply form, but regardless in my defense I am very computer illiterate hence my confusing responses apologies for the inconvenience.
….. ah. After rereading the question I should have been more clearer, I meant to ask what is next after the Sigl Fashion articles. I apologize for the confusion what I wrote wasn’t what I meant to say!
Given how much ‘world building’ you’ve done and are continuing to do, would you ever consider allowing other authors to use these constructs to build their own stories? I can imagine it would be difficult but there are other series out there where the author has created a ‘world’ and other authors use that as a platform for their books.
By way of example – Eric Flint’s 1632 book started a huge spin off, so too has John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie stories.
It could potentially allow you to help collaborate with other authors, expand the ‘universe’ and derive a potential additional revenue stream.