It’s a little premature to blog about how my first novel’s progressing – it isn’t.
So instead, I’ve decided to do a sorta general signposting here, for the heck of it. Hopefully, we’ll make some headway on this soon enough.
In terms of genres, it’ll be a Singapore/an-based fantasy thing, with bits of Gaiman and Pratchett and Adrian Tan interwoven in it. There’ll be stuff about hidden places and forgotten streets and old deities. There’ll be other stuff about constructed mythologies and historical legacies. It’ll be funny, violent and melancholic. It’ll be about love, lost and found. Probably.
In terms of timelines, I’m hoping to get most of the outline out by February, before writing the main parts by the end of the year. Hopefully, I’ll be done with a first draft in a year’s time, and fine tune it from thereafter. There might be illustrations.
I’ll probably self publish once it’s done, but we’ll see how it goes.
So yes.
Here we go, trudging tall mountains and crossing mighty river streams again. Once more, into the storm, we charge. Cha cha cha.
