Action Adventure Fiction

I am actually making progress with the editing of Oasis. I’m now over half way through, and I want to get that thing done. Progress has just been slow, that’s all.

I’ve been having difficulty carving out time to do the edits, as I picked up a couple of web-development side jobs. I’m done with one of those, and I’m cruising along with the second one. I still love writing more, but programming puts extra cash in my pocket now…

Anyway, one way or another Oasis will be available to purchase by Christmas.

Also, I’m toying with the idea of making a run at NaNoWriMo in November.

It has come to my attention that I have too many projects going on. I just had to scale back.

The biggest thing you may notice is that I won’t be posting new fiction on Fridays until I’m done with the line edits of Oasis. It’s been too long. I really need to get that sucker finished and published. The exception will be this Friday, as I post part one of a story that I intend to finish once I’m done with the edits. I already stopped posting to one or two of my other blogs.

The edits won’t take very long if I just focus for a minute.

Just so you know, here’s what to expect from me.

1. Part one of story this Friday.
2. Posts about editing and my progress in Oasis.
3. Oasis in softcover.
4. Finish short story from #1.
5. Oasis sequel time, baby. I’m tentatively calling this one “The Journey of St. Laurent.”

I am freaking excited to get started on the the sequel to Oasis. I’ve got some great stuff planned. We’ll get to meet Corbin’s estranged father. We’ll find out just what the heck aliens have to do with anything, and whether they’re really aliens at all. We’ll meet a bombastic conspiracy radio show host. And of course, we’ll witness the breakdown of society as we know it. It’ll be fun!

I am down to two three side projects that I’m still going to pursue.

1. A commercial project to help folks use a POD publisher to self publish their work, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. You’ll definitely hear more about this one soon.
2. Another project’s still in the planning stage, but it should excite all the zombie-loving lunatics out there. I’ve been working with an artist buddy of mine, and we’re putting together a Zombie-Smashing web comic! We’ll release it one page at a time (a la megatokyo or apple geeks). It will not be based off of the Oasis series of events. It’s a totally new setup. If we can get this thing to fly, it’ll be a kick.
3. I’ve got a great political thriller story brewing. I would like to write it as an hour to an hour and a half audio theater, and produce it, and bring about an audio theater renaissance in America. But then I’d also like to write it as a novel. Maybe I’ll do both. I just can’t decide which to do first. Or whether to do it before the Oasis sequel or after…

I really need to find a way to make a living doing this kind of stuff…

A couple of my real life friends keep asking me when Oasis is going to be published. I always tell them “As soon as I finish editing it.”

Well, assuming there’s anyone out there that cares, I’ve got two useful meters in the sidebar.

They match my process:

Line Edits - I’m going through line by line looking for typos and other errors.

Final Read - I’m reading Oasis out loud to my favorite editor (my wife, Aurora). Reading aloud helps me fix those nagging little phrasing issues and allows me to give things a nice polish. I hope.

[Note: If this is your first time here, you'd better start with Chapter 1: The last Shift. Thanks for reading.]

Escape?

I couldn’t tell which direction it came from.

“Who’s there?”

“Shh, quiet.”

Somewhere behind me. I turned around as best I could.

A lighter flicked in the darkness and Paul’s face came into view.

He lit a candle, and finished coming out from behind the same crate Beth had used for cover.

“Where’s Beth?”

He raised a hand like he was signaling cars to (more…)