The Return

It's been a pretty good month.  Reformation, book 3, is now at 51k words, which is an increase of about 10k words since the end of May. I edited the first short story in Recollections and added two more, so now it's at 8440 words. An increase of about 6000.  Revelation, the prequel, is at 31k words, which is an increase of about 4000. Generally this book is going really slowly. I know where I want it to go, but the way to get there is just dredging on. And to be honest I'm not sure I even like the 4000 words I managed to churn out in June. But that's an editorial problem. Get the story out on "paper" is the first order of business. Once that's done we can start looking at making it pretty, making it good.  The main reason why Revelation is taking so long is probably because Reformation is demanding my attention more, but what happens in Revelation is strongly tied with events in Reformation so I need Revelation to be completed to be sure that events in Ref...

I started May with the first short story in Recollections.  I also decided to rewrite the first three chapters of Rebellion. Ngl I'm very happy with the new chapters. It's a lot easier to keep the voice from the end at the beginning if you write the beginning at the end. (Read that sentence out loud three times). My main project for May ended up being the third book in the series: Reformation. When April ended I was at 23k words. Now I'm at almost 41k words, and most of it happened in one single week. In that week I caused two character deaths, one breakup, and massive lore.  Only the prequel, Revelation, has been ignored this past month and it's genuinely because I'm not sure where to go from the point I'm at. I know where the story is headed next, but if I go there immediately it'll be too much action too quickly. I need some every day mundane things to happen in-between. Allow the previous action to settle, let the characters get used to things, and then ...

I decided a blog could be useful and took a page from Mr Abercrombie . I started April by rereading Rebellion, tweaked a word here and there, but overall I’m still happy with it, which is a very special feeling. In the second week I sent it out to a new batch of potential agents.  Having done that, I turned my attention to Revelation (the prequel) and Reformation (the third book). Revelation got about 3500 new words while Reformation got about 6300 new words. I also started to fiddle with a short story collection that’s intended to give more exposure to side characters. Just naming it (Recollections) and structuring it so far, no writing done yet. I also reread the second book (Resurgence) and overall I feel like that one's a lot stronger than Rebellion, but Rebellion is the beginning and the story has to start at the beginning. Right? I went over Rebellion again unable to see any good way to improve on it, but shelving that for later consideration. After two weeks I had received t...