The last time I checked in I quickly glossed on the avalanche of poetry I'm working on. Well, I made some progress, further compiling and then just yesterday finding some additional collections, pushing the total number of volumes...quite high. I don't often think of myself as a poet, but I've...written a lot of poems over the years, and every time quite passionately. So it's weird that I don't think of myself as a poet. I guess it's harder to be a poet without recognition than it is a novelist.
Speaking of that, Jupiter's Beard, in the title, is the retitled Kiss Me Quick, and it's something I'm still very much working toward.
Collider, meanwhile, is another project I'm working on. In fact, it's the oldest project I've worked on...ever, really, and the one I've never even come close to actually writing. It's part of the Space Corps sequence, and as indicated, the first one I ever worked on, beginning plotting way back in 1995 (and probably earlier). I've continuously revised outlines, streamlining and making it more sophisticated. I've reached the point where I finally need to write the thing.
Part of the motivation is that it will be a more straightforward story than Seven Thunders. You may or may not recall that Seven Thunders was the passion project for Space Corps, something I finally wrote about five years back and have been timidly submitting ever since ("timidly" here meaning sporadically), including on my birthday about a month ago. Got a form rejection for it recently. Decided that wasn't going to be the end of the story. Seven Thunders is a heavily complex story. Collider, as I've said, as I've worked away at it, is simpler, more naturally geared toward specific story beats that flow organically. And this week, I began working on yet another plot revision, further streamlining it. Some of that was made possible by Terrestrial Affairs, the novella that wasn't supposed to feature Collider material but did, which makes both stories better for it, hopefully.
And maybe I can get the damn thing accepted by a publisher.
