thoughtfulShort stories...so many short stories. Like, I am actually not sure how many short stories, because there are the ones that were written in 2014 and came out in 2015, and so are firmly fixed in my head as "2015 stories," and then there are the ones that were written in 2015 and haven't come out yet, and anyway. Short stories. So many, many short stories. My head hurts if I think too hard about the short stories.
Novellas, only really six to speak of. "Every Heart a Doorway" was written in 2015, as was "Dawn or Dusk or Dark or Day," my first two Tor.com novellas. I wrote a Limbus, Inc. novella. I wrote the last two novellas that will be included in Rise. I also wrote an unannounced October Daye-universe novella, which I am listing here for the sake ofcompleteness, but please do not ask me about it or comment saying how you can't wait. You'll get more details when I can give them, and anything before that will just make me feel bad.
Novels! This is where I get a little head-cocked-and-contemplative, because, well. On the one hand, I think I only wrote four novels this year: Once Broken Faith, Magic For Nothing, The Nativity of Chance, and a fourth, as yet unannounced Mira Grant novel (I finished it yesterday, so I'm still feeling all fancy about it). On the other hand, two of those books (Nativty and the new Mira Grant project) were in excess of 150,000 words. That's their "I have written a book, look at it, look at how shiny it is" length, not their "put this baby in the printer machine, it's gonna be a book now" length. I have no idea how publication-long they're actually going to wind up being.
So that's six novellas, or roughly a book and a half's-worth of words, and four novels, two of which were a book and a half long. Which gives me, sans short stories, roughly the number of words that you would find in seven and a half books of average (101,000 to 120,000 words) length. If I look at it this way, I feel less like I spent 2015 slacking off.
This is why I sometimes need a nap.
December 31 2015, 18:47:26 UTC 1 year ago
You *did* announce a Toby Daye-universe novelette, titled "Full of Briars", back on the 11th, and you don't mention having written that novelette in 2015. (I also don't immediately note a project matching the parameters of "Full of Briars" on going back through your current-projects posts, but then as an unannounced project, I can see why it might not have been listed.)
Just to clarify, then: is the above-noted unannounced Daye-universe novella a different project than "Full of Briars", thereby giving us two things to look forward to as opposed to one? [I hesitate to rely too much on the use of "novella" vs. "novelette" in this context, especially when the publisher page for "Briars" describes it as a short story....]
December 31 2015, 18:57:54 UTC 1 year ago
A novella and a novelette are very different beasts. When calculating how much I had written in 2015, I wrapped novelettes into "short story," because otherwise I would have had to open every short story file to check the word counts. I did not mention any novelettes written in 2015.
December 31 2015, 19:18:28 UTC 1 year ago
That said, I thank you for the amplification.
December 31 2015, 19:21:34 UTC 1 year ago
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