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Tuesday 8 August 2017

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Once again, it's been a while, but it's not like I've been sitting around doing nothing.  I continue to write and I've got quite a few projects on the go.  Here is a quick summary of what I've been working on so far this year.

January to May 2017

I finished the first draft of Where Shadows go to Die.  It is a standalone western that is a cross between Dark Tower and Memento.  I've had my cousin go through it and he left a ton of notes.  Major changes are required to make this a more coherent story and for the time being, has been put in a drawer until I am ready to tackle all the required changes.

Each chapter in this book has two parts, a Now portion and a Back Story portion that ties in with the current events.  It is an odd breakdown and I'm not sure how audiences will react to it.  Some may like it and some may loath it.  I'm also toying around with updating the Back Story portion and turning it into a first person narrative.  This will require an extensive re-write and I'm just not sure if I'm ready to commit to that just yet.

In February I also began plotting the second book to A Brother's Will and thought, hey, since I'm already plotting, lets plot the second part to Age of Becoming as well.  I'm also thinking about combining these into a single book as the story lines are so closely tied together.  In the initial outline, the book has 43 chapters and an estimated total of 130,000 words.

June to August 2017

In June I began work on the second part to A Brother's Will, tentatively titled 'A Brother's Promise.'  It was slow going for the month of June as I was flip flopping between 'A Brother's Promise' and 'Age of Deceiving' (the second book in the Samantha story line).

I also began editing the third story line in the Kallodhan universe which follows a mother named Myra and her two young children.  This book was written at the same time as A Brother's Will and Age of Becoming, but never received the full attention it deserved.  It too plays into the ongoing Kallodhan story lines.

There is a fourth story line which I have since condensed and will be combing with the Myra chapters.  It follows an Immortal named Yeino and takes place on an entirely different continent.  Yeino's and Myra's chapters are also closely connected.

In late July, I started using a program called Scrivener.  It allows the user to plot, outline and write all in one program.  It uses a cork board for plotting which has been extremely useful as I can now see my entire book at a glance.  The best part is that you can compile a project and export it into a multitude of different formats such as Print Book, E-book, Word doc or PDF to name a few.

It was around this time that I decided to commit my efforts to 'A Brother's Promise'.  Since July 24th, I've written over 16,000 words bringing the book up to 21,000 so far.  I've been keeping a 5,000 words per week pace and hope to keep that going.  I've rediscovered my passion for writing and don't know why, but for some reason have found that August is always my best writing month.  I can usually crank out 20,000 plus words in August, but would like to make it to 31,000 (a thousands words a day for a month).  Time will obviously factor into this, but I've already written 7,000 in 7 days, so I have a good start.

September to December 2017

Before the end of the calendar year, I'd like to have a completed first draft of 'A Brother's Promise' along with a decent start to 'Age of Deceiving.'  In an ideal world, both would be completed and I could begin arraigning the chapters, but I don't want to over estimate myself.

During this time I'd also like to clean up the Myra/ Yeino book.  Though a lot has been written, there are chapters to add as well as re-write.  I'm not wholly convinced that the Yeino chapters are good enough at this point and have been contemplating a complete re-write, but I will deal with that barrier when I reach it.  Until then, I'm going to focus on the writing of new material and hope to have two more books out late 2018.

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