Progress

I began outlining Destalis in early 2004. I took the original plot & characters from Crystalia and molded them into a much more cohesive story. Starting in January 2005 and ending on June 15, 2008, I wrote the rough draft of the manuscript (what I consider draft 2), which ended up being over 274,00 words. The story's been edited heavily during the second half of 2008 and first half of 2009 by both myself and two different critique groups (draft 4 now stands at roughly 192,000 words). By September 2009, the manuscript should be polished enough to start sending query letters out to agents and publishers. This could be a tough sell for a first-time author, and so I've begun working on other, shorter works to beef up my resume.

I wrote Beyond Cloud Nine in creative writing class during my senior year of high school. If memory serves, the assignment was to write a single page. But not me. I wrote a prologue and first chapter of a Top Gun-like space opera. In December 2008, with Destalis nearing completion, I decided to resurrect the story for my second novel.