OOC - the World Tree novel

[sythyry]

(Sythyry will be back in a couple days.) If all goes well, I’ll have finished a fair draft of a World Tree novel soon. (Predictably, for a gaming novel, it’s a love story, concerning three Herethroy who were married as children and have to figure out what to do about it as adults. Some other things happen too.) The setting and the style are a lot like Sythyry’s story, except that there is an actual plot and all like that. It’s a fairly low-key story: the world isn’t saved ‘cause it’s not in danger, the villain is performing her villainies for an excellent reason, and the characters sometimes go for weeks and weeks without risking any injury more serious than a scolding. It also needs a title, but that’s another matter. Anyways, now I want to know what you recommend that I do with the thing. Honest opinions this time, if you please. I’ll go back to begging for flattery later. . . [Poll #117006]

Comments

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've babbled my thoughts about publishing (start at the top, work your way down) more than once. I'll spare you again...

As far as illustrated.... Feh. Gorgeous cover with an interior illustration at the start of chapter is always nice. If you want something fancier than that, you'd almost definately need to go small(er) press and make it a collectible run.

As far as "how fast".... Write it until you think it's done. Then wait a little while for distance and go back to it, tweak it, and then send it out. If it means working on other projects inbetween to *get* distance, then by all means, do something else. Do not, however, let those projects become an excuse to keep from going back to it.

And as far as reading goes ... I would love to. But things are pretty upheaved at this point in my life and I'm not sure I'd have the time to read, let alone the time to give it the consideration it deserves.