{"id":260,"date":"2014-08-06T03:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-08-06T03:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:27:02","slug":"so-many-books-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"So many books, so little time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I had, at most, 12 books in me: the <a title=\"The Alpha And The Omega\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?page_id=10\"><em>A&amp;O<\/em><\/a> trilogy (i.e. <em>The Books of Rachel<\/em>), my <a title=\"Tito\u2019s Martini\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=256\">grand sci-fi saga<\/a>, and a handful of <a title=\"Absinthe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=232\">standalone novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But when I recently tallied all my book outlines*, I was shocked to discover I had <strong>30<\/strong> novels left to write!<\/p>\n<p>The math: <em>A&amp;O<\/em> took me five years to write.\u00a0 Hence, it will take me 5 years x 30 novels = 150 years to complete writing all my books.\u00a0 (And that\u2019s not counting the additional book ideas I\u2019d inevitably come up with during that 150 year span of time.)<\/p>\n<p>Barring a cure for aging in the next 40ish years, I only have time to write eight more novels.\u00a0 Sadly, I will be forced to do some heart-rending literary prioritizing in the next few years.\u00a0 Damn you, mortality!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* These aren\u2019t mere \u201cstory ideas\u201d; these are fully fleshed-out summaries.\u00a0 I\u2019m a chronic outliner: I need to know how a story begins, builds, and ends, before I can write its first draft.\u00a0 I envy authors that can begin writing a tale without knowing where it&#8217;s headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured I had, at most, 12 books in me: the A&amp;O trilogy (i.e. The Books of Rachel), my grand sci-fi saga, and a handful of standalone novels.<\/p>\n<p>But when I recently tallied all my book outlines*, I was shocked to discover I had 30 novels left to write!<\/p>\n<p>The math: A&amp;O took me five [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}