Dragon's Child, Dragon's Price, Dragon's Intended....

[j_cheney]

Well, pounded out 3.5K words last night to finish the rough draft of The Dragon's Intended. Currently the ending is sort of lame (as always on a rough draft) and there are a lot of notes inserted in the text to fix something on the next run-through, but the rough draft is done. Which makes 10 SS RDs this year.

Yes, I know I said I was going to be cleanning up Masks of War, but it wasn't flowing.

So, this is the third story in my "Dragon's Child" series, and there are at least 2 more in my head. I'm going to have to work hard to make them stand alone stories. The first's off to an antho right now...so I'm just waiting. The second and thrid are now in RD form. I've worked some on four and five, four being an aside where we have a ghost plaguing them--not dragons, for a change--and five being the last in the series, where Jia-li and the dragon finally do marry....OK, it's complicated, moreso by the original premise of the first story.

All in all, I'm pleased that it came out so quickly, and now I'd better get to work massaging these last 3 stories into shape so I can get them out....somewhere....

9K, 11K, and 8K right now....that's 28K just on this one family. ;o)

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Eugie Foster puts hers up regularly on her blog, and I see some well known people's names on the Speculations Acceptances/Rejections Log...still it would be interesting to know. I figure if Eugie can still get rejected, then I should take it so badly.

I'm still researching the whole Asian mythos thing, and hope not to step on too many toes. I've set up an automatic out, because while one of the characters is basically Russian, and most of the others basically Chinese, there's a third racial group inserted there, that I've pretty much made up out of whole cloth...and I can blame them for any cultural element that's out of whack! (This is called cheating literary license)

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

I'm all in favor of literary license. :) I've been thinking off and on about a historical fantasy novel that would be enjoyable to write... but the research would never stop. Neeeever.

As far as Acceptances/Rejections logs go... Do you have any thoughts about where it's most useful to post these things? I've got a couple years' worth of data that I've never entered anywhere. I was thinking either Duotrope or the Black Hole, but I dunno. Do you feel you've gotten a lot out of Speculations generally?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I do all three. ;o)

Black Hole lets you see the most recent refusals, which Duotrope doesn't. Duotrope, on the other hand, shows the last 12 months, but doesn't break out individual responses. Say if Black Gate started clearing out their backlog, they would suddenly have a lot of rejections clustered within a few weeks. You can tell that on the Black Hole, but not on Duotrope. Duo, on the other hand, shows pending numbers. (BTW you probably shouldn't enter anything older than a year on Duotrope, as they won't track it...)

Speculations is more personal, in that I can see who got rejected. If someone well-known got rejected, then I don't feel as bad.

So each one has a different use to me....

Still, a couple of years woth of data is time consuming to enter. I would say the Black Hole. They store data eternally, and that way others can see the specific entry.

The only thing on Speculations that I'm reading regularly is the Rejection log....

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! Maybe this weekend I will start plugging in some data... Probably don't have time to join another online anything right now, but I see you can still post as anonymous on Speculations.