Off to Sirens 2011

On Wednesday I'm heading up the mountain for Sirens, where I'll be leading a workshop on creating and running your own writers' group. I am SO EXCITED about this (all of it!) that any mention of it leads to me running around flailing like the world's happiest muppet. Also, stage fright. I has it. I'm doing it anyway.

In other news, Harbinger is somewhere around halfway done. I've had so many false starts and partial drafts and tossed chapters that I am not sure I trust the word count, but it's ~55k words, and I think I can get to the end in another 45k, maybe 50k.

It's not the same book I thought I was writing, and I see a lot more room for a sequel than I did before, but I think I will write something completely different when it's done. I'm on track to finish before the holidays... but seeing as the last few years have been one endless lesson in rolling with unexpected changes to the grand plan, I'm focusing more on making progress than hitting the deadline.

But I think I know what's next in line, and that's never really happened before. Maybe I'll do a NaNo-type drafting in February or March next year...