{"id":5362,"date":"2016-02-05T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2016-02-05T21:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T03:17:28","slug":"my-2016-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/my-2016-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Creating in 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Magera
\nMy next big project is a series called Dragon Lotus. The map you see above this post is the map that I made to go with the series. In the books there\u00a0are dragons, magic, and its a full on epic fantasy adventure!\u00a0January was pretty much all about wrapping up the 2nd draft of book 1. I’m in the middle of re-writes now and my\u00a0plan is to release books 1, 2, and 3 in early fall, all together. <\/p>\n

At the same time I’ll also release a book of short stories set in the same universe. The idea is that by releasing all the content staged slightly, but more or less at the same time it will really help with getting a boost with the algorithms on Amazon, Kobo, and those kinds of sites. I’m super excited about the series, but its weird to be almost done with the first book when no one will get to read it for many months.<\/p>\n

After I wrap Dragon Lotus Book 1, I’m going to take a break and switch over and write Holiday Wars Volume 4. I already got the book outlined but I don’t want to put it off, because the\u00a0amazing Michael Odom is excited to start\u00a0drawing the next book and he can’t until I write it! Big and scary things are going to happen, specially after the horrors of Volume 3! It will be nice to hangout with Tegan, Friday, and the whole crew.<\/p>\n

Once Holiday Wars is done I’ll switch back to Dragon Lotus and I’ll probably be working on those books till July or August. It will be tough because in April\/May I need to start shooting photos for the 2017 Gaming Calendar and then the annual\u00a0Kickstarter will launch in June.<\/p>\n

When the Dragon Lotus books are done I plan to switch over and do some non-fiction. I’ll write the spiritual sequel to Finish the Script! Right\u00a0now I’m calling it, “Finish the Manuscript!” but I’ll probably rename it because that’s such a horrible name. The big twist though for Finish the Manuscript is that instead of focusing on how to write a screenplay it will be all about how to write a novel.<\/p>\n

The tricky part to Finish the Manuscript! is that at the same time I\u2019ll have to write a novel. It\u2019s part of the book\u2019s hook. In Finish the Script! I wrote a screenplay so that the readers could see my journey and how it evolved as well as see the mistakes and how I fixed them. So to write Finish the Manuscript I plan to write a thriller novel. It will have gun fights, and action, and mysterious puzzles and all that kind of cool thriller stuff. Plus I\u2019m going to set it in Texas and plan to have a lot of the locations be places that Lisa and I have visited in the past two years.<\/p>\n

I’m going to follow-up Finish the Manuscript! with a book I’m calling “Fantasyland” (I’ll have to rename it). It will be a guide to world building. The focus will be on fantasy since that’s what I write, but the principals and lessons in the book could just as easily be applied to sci-fi novels, rpg worlds, game design, or anything that requires creative world building.<\/p>\n

So the total tally for books to write this year are:<\/p>\n