I am still not happy with the Paksworld story written for the second anthology (and the deadline daily steps closer to my nose) so I started another one.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually I’ve started several that didn’t work at all, either because they instantly bulged and made it clear they would be too long,\u00a0 or because fitting them to the anthology requirements would warp them too badly.\u00a0\u00a0 But this new one has retained its potential and is cantering along briskly.\u00a0 It’s too long, but that’s because I had to work out background in the course of writing it–cuts shouldn’t be too difficult.\u00a0 I hope.<\/p>\n
My evil scheme for writing Paksworld stories for these anthologies (other than that the editors rather wanted<\/em> Paksworld stories–fantasy warfare, anyway)\u00a0 is that eventually there’ll be a book of all the Paksworld stories to that date.<\/p>\n Naturally, since this story may end up published in an anthology, and the editor will not like it to be spoilered ahead of time, I can’t tell you much about it.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s set in Paksworld and it involves characters you already know, at a time of their life you know only by hearsay in the existing books and stories.\u00a0\u00a0 Decades before the Deed of Paksenarrion<\/em>, in fact.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a new character I wish I’d created back in the Deed<\/em>–at least as part of the history–but I didn’t, so all that happens in the story is just stuff that nobody bothered to mention because other stuff was going on.<\/p>\n Should this story not<\/em> end up in that anthology, then I can share a little more.\u00a0 It’s been coy about its title, which has been, variously, “A Short Victorious Disaster” and “Foresight” so far.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Hindsight” might almost do as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plus many others, but the exact best hasn’t declared itself yet.<\/p>\n Now I’m off to finish the first draft.\u00a0\u00a0 Then comes the “fun” part.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am still not happy with the Paksworld story written for the second anthology (and the deadline daily steps closer to my nose) so I started another one.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually I’ve started several that didn’t work at all, either because they instantly bulged and made it clear they would be too long,\u00a0 or because fitting them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,102],"tags":[13,39,107],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-story-2","tag-history","tag-story","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}