Josh has had a really hard day, hard couple of days, 
and this is really close to piling on, but he’s got a nice and even 6,000 words to catch up to me, two solid days at my 3,000 word per day pace.
That said, today was tough. I only got a bit over 500 words this morning, and I had to make it up on breaks, lunch, and yes, even while playing DDO with my friends.
I’m 20% of the way through my book now, I’m still getting at least one twist I didn’t expect every day. Today’s revelation: my characters have to make an impromptu trip to Khazakhstan to pick up a gray market nuclear reactor. Who knew?
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I was introduced to the wonderful world of Jeff Kirvin via 1src, and its previous incarnation. I’ve been listening to the 1SRC podcasts since the first. I’ve occasionally dipped my toe into the crazy space of Maximum Geek (you two definitely need some kind of help – just not sure exactly what!) and the little more sedate Writing on Your Palm. Then there is, or there was, SerialFiction.net – what happened to this?
Anyways, getting to my point: I don’t know you from the proverbial Adam, but I do know that you are passionate about writing. I’m not one, but I would imagine being a writer is both rewarding and frustrating at the same time. Working in a hugely competitive environment, getting your efforts to shine through the masses that make up the rest I would think is a challenge and a half.
But over the past couple or so years, reading and listening, I really believe you’ve got what I takes to pull it off: you just come across as that kind of guy who has the passion and determination to get there. Whereever there is. And it might be a little further away than you think. But it’ll happen for you one day Mr Kirvin.
Heck, I may even buy one of your creations myself one day. “Homeworld” sounds pretty interesting thus far…
Keep on writing.
SerialFiction.net was a failed experiment, in the end we moved all the titles we were publishing there back to Fictionwise.com. We’re still in flux on a publishing scheduel and what we’ve learned from doing NaNoWriMo will most certainly change things again, it may even allow us to get our work out on a regular scheduel. I don’t think either of us has given up on our SerialFiction projects, we just realized that being a publisher was taking time away from writing and in the end we are both writers.
At this point both Jeff and I are planning on polishing our NaNoWriMo projects and seeking out traditional publishing for them. I still believe that serial fiction is a viable and interesting format, I still want to publish Atlantis as a serial and I have other projects which scream to be serials as well.
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