The Price of Friendship: June 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012

Two Things (Updates)

I went to BayCon a couple weeks back. I got some new motivation and a bunch of new ideas.

So, number 1 priority is getting my second novel up at Podiobooks.com. That's the King's Shoemaker, my first Nanowrimo from four years ago. I'm rewriting it completely. I'd say I'm about half way through and stand at 40K words. I'm shooting for 1000 words per day and hope to have the story up by the end of July.

I also got a lot of feedback on my "Summer Surprise". It was pretty consistent that people felt it incomplete. So I have some ideas on how to make the story complete and more satisfying. It will probably go another 7K to 10K. If that is the case, I may release it as a Podiobook Novella. That would be the end of August.

In the mean time, I need to do a complete edit, revamp, on my Teenage Vampire Love Story for Boys.

About the story.

The Novel

The Price of Friendship started in the May of 2009 with the prompt week #54 from Jeff Hite's prompt based creative writing podcast. The prompt was "A pound of flesh" from the Merchant of Venice.

I had been writing for about five months, hadn't attended any writers meetup groups, hadn't taken any classes and had very little feedback from anybody and jumped in like I normally did. I just started writing. Some call it organic, some call it rambling, but where I started and where I ended were two completely different places.

I expected to go about four weeks, using the prompts from Jeff and finishing with about 6000 words and Amy rolling her eyes at Chad, gasping, "Boys!" and walking away, shaking her head.

I continued writing an episode, on and off for the rest of the year and had gotten to about six or seven episodes by the end of the year. Justin, the space turtle, Lowmaster told me I should do an episode a month for the "Podcasting for Compassion" podcast to support Compassion International in 2010. I started by rewriting my first few episodes and added a few more, one month at a time.

When I did Nanowrimo that year and hit 50,000 words in 16 days, I realized that I had been wasting time and dragging my feet on the Price of Friendship, which stood at about 20k words at that time. That if I concentrated in a Nanowrimo way, I could knock The Price out in January.

Long story longer, it took me a few months, and each time I learned something new in a class or from an editor, I went back and rewrote the whole thing again.

In the end, I realized I will never be done editing or rewriting, and that I should just get this one out and move on to the next. So, for the next six weeks, I will be finishing recording and editing and putting this book on Podiobooks.com (A dream I had since first listening to Nathan Lowell's Share books, in September of 2008)

If you like it, leave me some feedback. If you don't, that's ok, and if it is constructive, leave that feedback, too.

Thanks,

Philip 'Norvaljoe' Carroll

January 2012

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