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As the Holidays approach and the year ends, I wanted to round up what I’m doing writing-wise for everyone. So let’s go – in what may be some kind of order.
First, the next Way With Worlds Minibook is up and will be out soon – it’s on Organizations! That one really just needs formatting, so it’s definitely out in December.
Secondly, somewhere in all of this is the print copy of A Bridge To The Quiet Planet. This is unpredictable because it’s a mix of formatting, checking, giving up and running a print, and finding out the mistakes you made. It could be out in as early as start of January or late as February depending on how much I screw it up.
Third, there’s a world guide to the setting of the novel. I plan to get that out around the same time as the print copy.
Fourth, there’s a new creativity guide, my guide to Brainstorm Books. That one is in weird shape, as I found the original draft, based on my columns, was lacking. I’ll be tackling that once I get other stuff out of the way, so expect to see it in January to February.
All of THIS clears my plate for the next round of work.
RANDOMIZED CREATIVITY BOOK: In February I’m going to begin work on my next big book, a guide to randomized creativity and procedural generation. This will compile all of my theories into one guide to assist people making random generators, games, etc. I’m going to try to power it out as a draft as fast as I can because I want to experiment with some writing techniques. Note that even at the best, this thing won’t be out until August or so.
MORE WAY WITH WORLDS MINIBOOKS: I have a ton of these I want to write (try more than 20), so I’m pretty much going to do them for years at this rate. I need to find a workable pace, but expect to see them intermittently – I’d like to do at least four a year.
So past about May or June I will have A) caught up, and B) have the randomized creativity book in editing. Then I’ll consider larger steps – there’s a sequel to A Bridge To The Quiet planet in my mind so I’ll almost inevitably do that, but I want to try to do it faster this time (but still even at best it won’t be out until 2020 while I do minibooks)
So there you go, lots to look forward to!
Steven Savage