Baby Steps
You may have noticed there hasn’t been a lot of posting activity lately. I was going to completely redo the website—but my schedule got sideswiped by a book release, work stuff that is Ultra-Microsoft Top Secret™, and me trying to finish up the sequel to Mortal Coils.So, I give up. Instead of trying to redo the entire site at once, I’ll be taking baby steps to break the inertia of not doing anything at all.
First there will be a new home page at the “ericnylund.net” domain. You can preview that now by clicking on the “Main website” link to the right. There’s a rough bio up as well, linked off that main page. Don’t worry; the blog part isn’t going to change (although the domain might shift over into a sub directory).
Also there are things that should have always been here like full search capability on the blog and searchable tags now on every blog entry.
Stay tuned for more updates—maybe even video blog entries.
posted by Eric Nylund at 6:49 AM
11 Comments:
I vote for finishing the Mortal Coils sequel over blog posting! I know I have to wait until 2010 for the next one, but that doesn't make it easier...
Considering you don't even really have to do this blog thing at all, the fact you're still sticking with it is impressive. I don't know how many authors work as hard as you do to keep up with their fans and treat their fans with such respect, especially after getting successful. I don't think it matters how quickly the site gets fancy. The fact it's even here is pure cake. Anything else will be icing.
Jeremy--don’t worry, my writing always comes first. (Just a few more chapters to go on the sequel, btw). But like every other writer, I procrastinate. Might as well use that time to do something productive : )
Nikoda--it’s my pleasure to interact with my readers. I consider it a perk of the business!
It's about time you stopped eating celebration book release cake and start finding time to blog again. Do you know how many places you almost fell in my "Recently Visited" tab?
Firefox almost deleted you, it's true. I expected Mortal Coils 2 to be done by now. Hurry up. :P
And here's kind of an interesting question that I don't think anyone has asked you yet. As you improve your craft, do you think you will ever reach that moment where you want to write full time? Your own novels, contracts for IP, etc. or do you still enjoy waking up before the crack of dawn and punching in your time card at Microsoft? I guess, as far as your opinion goes, when should any writer make that leap?
As for your "Secret" aka Halo project, no worries man, you'll only agitate the few hundreds of thousands of fan boys. By the way, Genesis was fun and you can sleep easier at night knowing that you made one person "upgrade" to the collectors edition. Jerk.
One last bit, on the new design, it's simple and elegant. But where's the picture of us? I mean we'll eventually be best friends having BBQ's and talking about the good ol' days all the time right? Right? :)
I'm waiting for a cash break to buy Mortal Coils, so to pass the time, I reread Ghosts of Onyx. You sir, are the master of cliff hangers! Are we ever going to find out what happened Blue Team, Mendez, and Dr.Halsey? and if you're not writing the next halo book (if it's a continuation of Onyx), then I'll just refuse to read it!
You're an amazing writer, and I can't wait to read Mortal Coils.
Dave
Hey DZ—I so agree I need to stop slacking. I’ll adopt the 4-hours-of-sleep-a-night model right away.
RE: when I’m going to write full time? It’s a great question. I’ll post a long answer about when a writer should go “full time” as a blog post. A lot of people ask about the economics of being a writer.
The short answer here is: Not any time soon. There’s a money part to it, and there are also some extremely interesting things going on at Microsoft Game Studios right now that I don’t want to miss out on (and sorry to burst your bubble—but I’m not working on anything HALO related).
Dave—thanks. Try the library if you’re strapped for cash. I love the library.
RE: a GHOSTS sequel. I’d love to write one, but all those decisions are up to Microsoft’s Licensing people; they pick the authors and subject matter for the HALO novels...and right now I know as much as you do.
dude, you have GOT to cut your hair... not even kidding.
Kilroy--sorry, man. All the ladies (read: my wife) love the long hair. Deal.
I've a question when you get a chance: How the heck do people write in collaboration? Does one person write one chapter, another person another? Is an outline worked out then just one person writes it? I've been working on stuff with a friend of mine and we're good about shooting ideas back and forth and taking criticisms and such, so that's not an issue. We've created accounts with google docs as well which allows us to work on the same thing at the same time. So we do have some of it figured out, but we're missing something. If you have any insight into what that may be, it would be greatly appreciated.
Nikoda--I'll write up some general advice and post it...but can you be a little more speicifc of what the problem is? Are you two staring at the outline asking ...what now?
Pretty much. We have a story idea and all that fairly well laid out. It's just a matter of how do we write it. Would each of us write a chapter then go back through and make it sound like one person wrote it? Should we just pick one person to do the writing? It feels like being in a two-man band where both members play drums. *laughs*
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