Best laid plans and all those other cliche comments about keeping to schedules can be inserted here…
Solider and His Queen (which still needs a new title) will be delayed. I got the final rounds of edits in at the beginning of this week and due to a range of personal issues I was unable to work on any of the edits, let alone rereads and producing of the podcast episode.
I would like to say I will be ready with an episode next week and then back on track, but as the personal issues are not yet resolved I am unable to commit to that. So — I do commit to one more episode before the month is over.
Thank you for stopping by and I will keep the blog updated if anything changes.
Episode 4 is 99% ready for Sunday’s release and I can say that I am getting into a real groove and it is no longer taking 15 hours to produce 15 minutes of audio, though I am still looking for new ways to improve the quality of the podcast.
Today, I finished Tears of a Father, it is about half the length of what I have been writing and while I am sure I could bloat it out I like the shortness of it. We’ll see how it does during reading and editing.
The Wailing Stone, needs more work than originally thought so it is being bumped down the podcasting schedule. Soldier and His Queen will be finding itself into the podcast in November, my readers think that it is the stronger of the two thus needs less time under the knife.
I am gearing up for a novella/novel length piece that will dominating my November (yep NaNoWrMo) and most likely my December. Depending on how it shapes up it will be the story that will start podcast in January/February.
Aside from all of that my night time reading has been occupied with some classics, I am going back to my college days, brushing up on my Middle English and reading Canterbury Tales and let me tell you it is giving me all kinds of ideas for Kingdom Crisis.
Well weighing in at a healthy 7688 words is The Solider and his Queen, which I think needs a new title but so far everything comes out cheesier that what I have already. Ah well.
So now on to some hard core edits of The Wailing Stone and catching up on audio work for the podcast. Speaking of which at the moment it looks like I am still on track for the release this weekend of part 1 of Thief’s Folly, the reading and the lengths are all weird with this story so I am not sure if it will be a 2 episode story or a 3. I will know better next week after part 1 is out and I edit the second (and third?) parts.
On the NaNoWrMo front — I am still hoping to participate but my outline and prep work is far from done and I have one more short story that is baking at the moment… so it is a wait and see. Then again I said the same thing about the podcast and I am 2 episodes in with a 3rd releasing in two days.
Those are my thoughts for the moment. Yea me for finishing another story… now onto the next project. Just keep writing is the moto.
– Brian Clay
I am currently recovering from some sort of super crud that my son’s kindergarten class cooked up. As a result I am behind in my writing and my recording.
At the moment I don’t think it will impact the release of the next episode.
However, my writing schedule has fallen off more significantly. I was expecting to have The Solider and his Queen completed at this point and midway through edits for The Wailing Stone. Well the story is not only not done, it is turning out to be about 1500 words longer than I originally thought.
The reason why this is causing me stress is that I had hoped to have October cleared to work on outlining and planing for NaNoWrMo. Best laid plans. So October will be for finishing the current story and editing Wailing Stone, which needs more work than I expected.
– Brian
I finished the 1st/2nd draft of The Wailing Stone it clocks in at 6,600 words. It was a hard story to write, quite a bit darker than my usual stuff and definitely an experiment. I learned a lot about my writing and myself with this one. It will need some real work in the editing phase to clean up some stumbles. The pod-casting of this one will be in the November/December time frame.
I am now starting The Solider and his Queen, tentative title by the way. This is a ghost story of sorts that was inspired by some research I was doing into Russian folklore, which ended up going somewhere completely unexpected. This story will most likely end up being about 5,000 words and will be in the podcast schedule as the last 2009 story (maybe).
About the podcast: Well I have been watching my subscriber numbers bounce around, up and down from day to day but on the whole they are going up. I have also been getting some nice feedback in addition to some helpful advice. Which has resulted in me doing some rerecording of Episode 2 to work on the computer fan vibration that can be heard in Episode 1. Tons of lessons learned so far and I am so grateful to everyone that has lent a hand in helping me improve.
– Brian
Kingdom Crisis, Podcast | Brian Clay | 
December 6, 2009 5:32 pm | 
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