{"id":2831,"date":"2016-09-13T22:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2016-09-14T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T11:31:48","slug":"what-to-do-when-youre-fifty-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/what-to-do-when-youre-fifty-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do When You’re Fifty Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you young and ambitious? Then take heed. I had to ponder this week, and work out if anything I’d done in the last year was a Good Idea<\/strong>. Mainly because it’s been an entirely different year from the one before, when I wrote not a word. The garden is an utter disaster, the pond is a strange colour, and I still haven’t mended the toaster. And writing is to blame. Lots of writing, endless writing, and then the reading in between to find out what other people were writing, or to be able to interview them, have conversations which sounded even vaguely informed, and so on.<\/p>\n

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I launched greydogtales<\/em> when I was coming up to my fifty eighth birthday. Since then I’ve completed and put on line almost one hundred and seventy pieces<\/strong>, some of which run to well over 3000 words. Articles, special book features, lengthy updates and about fifty interviews with writers, artists, publishers and the occasional fictional character. It’s all a little shocking.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I was writing fiction. Perhaps not enough fiction and not fast enough, in fact, given my age, but quite a lot of it. I see people thirty years younger than me considering their writing career, and think Oops, left this all a bit late.<\/p>\n

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the author, composing a trilogy in his spare time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I looked at where I was, and this is the summary position, by current status. One novella and twenty five stories in just over a year, on top of greydogtales<\/em> and the recent Occult Detective Quarterly<\/em> work. It’s not so bad, but whether it’s good enough is the question…<\/p>\n

The Revenance<\/b><\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. A Stranger Passing Through<\/span><\/strong> Blood, Sweat and Fears (Nosetouch)<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. The Preacher’s Tale<\/strong><\/span> Coming from Ravenwood<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tales of the Last Edwardian<\/b><\/h2>\n

    (includes Carnacki, his inheritors and their associates)<\/em><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. A Dark Trade<\/strong><\/span> Carnacki: The Lost Tales (Ulthar)<\/em><\/li>\n
    2. Grey Dog<\/strong><\/span> Carnacki: The Lost Tales (Ulthar)<\/em><\/li>\n
    3. One Last Sarabande<\/strong><\/span> Self-published (Smashwords)<\/em><\/li>\n
    4. A Word with Mr Dry<\/strong><\/span> greydogtales.com<\/em><\/li>\n
    5. An Intrusion<\/strong><\/span> Self-published (Smashwords)<\/em><\/li>\n
    6. Loss of Angels<\/strong><\/span> Self-published (Smashwords)<\/em><\/li>\n
    7. His Heart Shall Speak No More<\/strong><\/span> [under consideration]<\/li>\n
    8. In the Sight of God<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
    9. A Study in Grey<\/strong><\/span> Novella (18thWall Publications)<\/em><\/li>\n
    10. Hoodoo Man<\/strong><\/span> [accepted]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Other Period Tales<\/b><\/h2>\n
        \n
      1. A Persistence of Geraniums<\/strong><\/span> Coming from Ravenwood<\/em> – chapbook<\/li>\n
      2. The Jessamine Garden<\/strong><\/span> Coming from Parsec Ink<\/em><\/li>\n
      3. The Dragoman’s Son<\/strong><\/span> [accepted]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Wolds Weird<\/b><\/h2>\n
          \n
        1. Something Annoying This Way Comes<\/strong><\/span> greydogtales.com<\/em><\/li>\n
        2. The St Valentine’s Day Mascarpone<\/strong><\/span> greydogtales.com<\/em><\/li>\n
        3. Horseplay<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
        4. The Horse Road<\/strong><\/span> Coming from Lackington’s Magazine<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          African Weird<\/b><\/h2>\n
            \n
          1. With the Dark and the Storm<\/strong><\/span> [accepted]<\/li>\n
          2. The Death of Beauty<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            The Technosophy (SF)<\/b><\/h2>\n
              \n
            1. An Age of Reason<\/strong> <\/span>Coming from April Moon<\/em><\/li>\n
            2. On Abydos, Dreaming<\/strong><\/span> [under consideration]<\/li>\n
            3. Spirits of Earth<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Contemporary Weird<\/b><\/h2>\n
                \n
              1. Messages<\/strong><\/span> Cthulhusattva (Martian Migraine)<\/em><\/li>\n
              2. We Whose Breath is Dust<\/strong><\/span> [accepted]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Not a dedicated young man writing in a specific genre with a plan, then.<\/p>\n

                It seems patently obvious that I need to write larger, longer pieces. And maybe even settle on one area to concentrate my mind. One novella and multiple short stories across a number of genres\/niches are not going to butter the parsnips, as we say up here. If we’re old. So it seems that I really must face the task of avoiding so many short story calls, and focus more on what I ought to be doing during the year of being 59.<\/p>\n

                If I come up with a proper answer, I might tell you. Not that you’ll care, anyway. I wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

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                Next time: Something interesting…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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