#big goal is to get rising shards volumes in print as well like light novel volumes

[risingshards]

We're changing software at work so I had a long stretch of nothing to do so I was on Goodreads just dinking around and looking at the new books we can't check in for a few more days, and I got daydreaming again about something with D6R that's really been an intriguing idea for me (for more on D6R check my post here).

D6R was an older draft of Rising Shards before it really became itself, so the characters and tone and everytthing are so different that I think it'd be cool to make my revised version of it in the same universe but with different characters. This story I've been dabbling about how to connect it to RS (originally it happened in the first season where the D6R crew shows up there), but I always had the inkling that the exile story of D6R happened before the events of RS.

Since D6R is tonally different (mainly a fantasy adventure journeying somewhere vs. the mishmash of genres RS is) and different in form (traditional manuscript vs. web novel), I think it would be so cool if someday I could get D6R published and have that side be there as one part of the universe and Rising Shards as another, like RS readers can get lore and backstory in a hopefully not boring prequel-y way since it's so different (I'm hesitant to put D6R up as a web novel cuz I fear it won't get the same traction as RS cuz it's very not web novel-y and it do not scratch similar itches but I might someday), and readers starting with D6R and can find out there's also a giant slice of life fantasy wlw web novel that happens after that's already running.

Even with the itch to try tradpub again, I have to brace myself already this early in the project (or maybe pretty far in since I've worked on this branch of the RSverse for a looong while already) for all my tradpub woes, mainly stuff that held me up before. Not just the heavy unlikeliness of success, but the roadblocks I have with disliking the whole process of lit agents and queries and ugh. But maybe if I really heavily revise this, really polish it up, get all those barfy things like comps and whatever in place, maybe someday I can have some print projects. This is just a fun daydream right now, but in the one in a million shot everything lines up, this would be super cool 🥰

(Also bonus for D6R right now: a heavy revision of an old project is definitely scratching different creative muscles than Rising Shards, which is a major goal for a side project the last year or so)

#writeblr #chiral writes #project d6r #rising shards #tradpub woes #big goal is to get rising shards volumes in print as well like light novel volumes #but I think that will be on me and will be self published