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As my lovely spouse as mentioned on more than one occasion, I always have a project going on. Usually two or three or even more. Lately, I feel that I'm starting a lot of projects and not actually finishing anything. With some of my recent projects, that may change since I actually see a finishing point on both MfGames Culture CIL[1] and Sand and Bone[2].
On the programming side, I'm working on a C# library called MfGames Culture CIL (all of my .NET libraries end in “CIL”). This is the fantasy calendar system I've mentioned before[3]. The project is somewhat ambitious for me, which makes it scary, but also something I've been thinking about doing for a number of years. I also think it is something I can actually finish and make into a proper library.
3: /blog/2015/02/13/mfgames-culture-api-introduction/
I hit a pretty good point with the library. It now handles cultures, multiple calendars, translations, and a combination of a number of cool things. Everything is hard-coded in C# code, which I'm planning on solving with the next few steps. In the end, it should be completely driven off XML or JSON files.
I'm tracking my “to do” lists toward a 1.0.0 release over on Github[4].
4: https://github.com/dmoonfire/mfgames-culture-cil/issues
After a number of deaths I've had to deal with in the last few months, I finally got a chance to go back to my writing group. When I had to take some time off at the end of last year, there was a huge group of submissions. Now, not so much. Which means I had a chance to get Sand and Bone finished.
The last fifteen chapters were still very rough since I wrote almost all of them in a single week. I took the last week to do another round of editing against it, cleaning it up and making it ready for the group.
After this week, I have five more submissions and then it should be done with that round of editing. After that, a pair of rounds of professional editors and it will be ready for being published.
If I mention Sand and Bone, I probably should talk about Sand and Ash[5]. I've gotten a number of beta readers for the sequel to Sand and Blood[6] and it has been pretty positive. I'm excited about getting it done, but…
6: https://sand-and-blood.fedran.com/
I had a choice between getting Sand and Ash out or going to WisCon[7]. I choose WisCon because it gives me a chance to visit my grandmother (she lives in town), reduces a long haul for a family trip, and gives me a chance to meet up with some friends.
This year I'm going to try doing a reading. We'll see if I get in, but it will be the first time I've read something I've written since I've done poetry readings in Illinois. I'm thinking about doing a chapter from Flight of the Scions[8], mainly because the entire world was inspired by panels from that convention.
8: /tags/flight-of-the-scions/
I'll find out how to get Sand and Ash out this year, hopefully by ICON[9]. I'm going to sign up for doing a reading there too, probably because I'm hoping to be a lot more comfortable with reading my novel.
I'm also assuming I can pronounce my character names smoothly by then.
I'm hoping to finish MfGames Culture CIL in a week or so. And then I'm sure I'll move on to another project.
There is always another project.
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