Writers, how many of you have been frustrated by how long it will take to release your book?  Solution:  Serialization, or the release of partial segments of material.  Problem:  You better know EXACTLY how the story plays out for the foreseeable future, because you don’t have the opportunity to go back and revise a segment you’ve already released.  My solution:  Before releasing anything, have at least 100 pages (or 30,000 words) of follow-on material drafted in advance.  That way, you have a fairly good idea of what happens in the future of your story and can revise your releasable material accordingly.  Okay, not a perfect solution, but it IS a way to mitigate some of the risk while at the same time not having to punch out a full 100,000-something word manuscript before anybody reads it.  Hopefully, that tactic may prove helpful to some of you.

That being said, I’ve been posting a weekly word count for Echo, but no indication of when Chapter 1 will be available as a free sample.  Since Chapter 1 is roughly 4000 words, I will punch my draft out to 34,000 words total, scrub up the chapter a little, then post it on dirtyscifibuddha.com  I’m writing this for myself as much as for you guys, since having no boss enables me to procrastinate.  Articulating my plans and rationale through these posts helps to impose structure on my routine.  I wish you guys inspired drafting and insightful editing!