I actually had one that was halfway there. I guess if I rewrite it, it will only take me twice as long.





Self-publishing is a nice idea, except without money for promotion it's kind of a waste of time. Unless people already know to look for it, then it's promoting itself.





I kind of figured there would be a lag. There's always bureaucracy to get through in publishing companies.





It's going to be a slightly delayed gearing up, though, because I have paying and potentially paying game development work in the queue at the moment. I can work slowly on writing during idle points, but it won't be full time just yet.

My biggest enemy with writing anything that long is the more I go back and read earlier stuff the more glaring problems bother me. Right now I solve that by never going back. But if it's a full publication, I'm going to have to, so I'm going to need to learn to draw a line where I can say this is good enough, and leave it alone before I make things worse.

Another enemy I have to fight is that I hate filler. It's really difficult to write 60,000 words without at least one section where nothing is really happening, but it'll probably be necessary. This is actually the number one thing that causes my writing to come to a halt completely for a while - I realize the entire section I'm writing is filler, and I toss it out. I probably throw out 1/4 of what I write and no one sees it because of that.