current projects

[zzambrosius_02]

In news of a non-SCA nature, I edited and slightly re-wrote Chapter Two Of SALTARAE II, and then worked on Chapter Three. Word says I wrote 802 words, so with the re-writes call it 830. I still don’t have a clear idea of the arc of this story, though. I know from experience that will only come clear after I write enough incidents...so that’s the goal.

SARÁYI is in a state of cryonic torpor. Pretty much know where I’m going with that story, but the characters are being uncharacteristically silent. When I have a story arc on SALTARAE II, I will spend some time concentrating on SARAYI.

The other project, intended to be a ‘short’ novel perhaps suited to YA readers, has a working title: “A SEPARATE REALITY”. Waiting for what’s next, I am. Will Mindy Barrie, teenaged daughter of the US Secretary of Espionage really go hunting for Russian spies in what used to be Alaska? Sorta looks like she’s that kinda girl...

So that’s the latest news from the Word Mines.

Gotta go. See ya!

Comments

[corvideye.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, what makes it suited to YA readers?

To YA or not to YA?

[zzambrose.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Several things might make it more YA than my other books. I can shift the action more towards Jay Barrie's 19-year-old daughter, in the Yukon. If I do that, she can interact w/ Mr Rothakis in a fashion that sends her into the badlands of Alaska where she would face her mortality and take actions that would affect her world. Most of the mass casualties of a war between tsarist Russia and that version of the USA could happen off stage. But Mindy could witness bad shit happening, etc. She could make mistakes and correct some of them, "come of age" as they say: the usual tropes of YA lit. But there would room for some genre-busting as well.

I have made No Decision. I'm leaning, though.