#writerscoffeeclub January 6th: What’s your current writing project? How’s it going?
Just handed in the final draft of "The Regicide Report", which hopefully means the last book in the Laundry Files will come out in early 2026.
Just started the third draft of "Ghost Engine", the new-old space opera I've been working on since 2015 (now 10 words into the edit pass), and doubled the size of the plan for "Starter Pack", the book after that one.
An unusually productive day!
@cstross The novel. The gorram Novel. Is halfway through the 4thhhhh draffffffft.....
@megatronicthronbanks I normally never go past a second draft, but GE has taked its own sweet time coming together.
@cstross
I hear you. But this was a 500 page, 25 character monster that needed to be sliced up into sub-monsters, and then one of them chosen to be anointed, and then smoothed out. On the plus side, there are directories full of notes for possible shorts and novellas left behind from the deconstruction!