Progress

How is the new book progressing, you ask? I’m right at 14k words in, which means it’s almost 20% done. I’m aiming for 75k words again, which seems a good length for books of this type. I’ve already noted a few things I’ll need to go back and change in the first book of the series, but that’s expected. It’s why I’m not publishing these books until I have at least three done. That way I can make sure the series arcs stay consistent and don’t go off track. At least too far. I would say that this one isn’t going as fast as the first one, mainly because I’m making up a lot of stuff as I go. But isn’t that what writers do? Yes, but this time I have even less thought out beforehand and the characters are undefined until they appear in the story and I flesh them out. It’s probably a horrible way to do it and anybody who teaches writing is shaking their head. I should be doing character sketches up front instead of building them on the fly. I should have at least some sort of outline. I’m not going to argue those points. I’m just saying that the creative process with these books is a bit different than my others and we’ll see if they turn out okay or end up as a big, flaming mess.