My sustainable rate of writing is 2,000 words per work day, and I take weekends off. With novels I’m capable of going through more if I have time- Ninefox Gambit went through seven drafts. My short fiction only goes through a couple of drafts-rough draft, out to beta readers, then maybe one or two revisions beyond that. How many stages does your work go through before you send it off to a publisher? How much of your time is spent writing the first draft, and how much time is spent in revision? What sort of revisions do you do? “The Second-Last Client” came out in Lightspeed in November 2019. But on the series level…well, I didn’t plan to write a trilogy. I plan individual novels because I’m not smart enough to figure out the plots on the fly. And after I committed to Raven Stratagem, I had another idea, and that became Revenant Gun. But after I finished drafting it, I had an idea for a sequel. I didn’t know it was going to be a trilogy! I originally intended Ninefox Gambit to be a standalone. Did you know how the trilogy would end when you began writing the first book? Are you more of a planner, or more of a pantser? You recently completed the Hugo Award-nominated Machineries of Empire trilogy. Like math, or ice-skating, or putting on eyeliner, it’s something you learn by practice. What do you think is the most important advice you can give to developing writers? He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.Īs a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Workshop, you’ll be lecturing, workshopping, and meeting individually with students. His short fiction has appeared in venues such as Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Lee’s middle grade space opera, Dragon Pearl, was a New York Times bestseller.
Its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were Hugo finalists. His debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. Yoon Ha Lee will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Workshop.
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