Vacation

What happened while I was on vacation with my writing? Well, not as much as I’d hoped. I wanted to crank out a good amount of story and had high hopes I could make a lot of progress on the sequel to First. In reality, we stayed quite busy and I probably wrote about 500 words total. Not going to be too upset, though, since we had a great time. It just turned out to not be a time for writing and that’s okay. The break allowed me to ponder some of the nagging questions in my mind about the story, although I haven’t resolved all those issues yet. For example, one of the things people liked about First included Ray, the smart-aleck AI. I don’t have enough of that in this book and that probably needs to change. Not that this needs to be exactly like its predecessor, but I can also see it from the viewpoint of the reader and coming away from the sequel wondering why I didn’t like it as much. Anyway, not much progress over the last couple of weeks, but hoping to get back to it and complete the draft before Thanksgiving in the US.