Wednesday, July 15, 2020

First Draft Complete

I have mixed feelings.
I finished chapter 20, I now have a total of 56,635 words. That may change as I edit and possibly add scenes. I am excited with my achievement, but I'm almost sad to have finished the book. It was a companion. I know that I can move on to book two or work more with that other idea I had, but there is this feeling of missing something when you finish writing a book. It's similar to how I feel after I've finished reading a wonderful book for the first time. Even though I can visit again I know it won't be the same.

It's late and I need to sleep so I will end this one here. I also need to decide what I'm doing next. I will post with updates once I decide what that is.

❥ Stay Safe

Over 50,000 words!

I wrote chapter 18 yesterday (all 2,885 words) and chapter 19 today (2,934 words). I crossed the 50,000 word mark yesterday. Honestly super excited. I only have one chapter left. I might write an epilogue but I don't know that this book needs one. It leaves off on an almost cliffhanger if I do it right and an epilogue would ruin that. I'm tempted to publish this book in a chapter by chapter format. But I'll think on that for a bit first.

Got back the edited version of chapter 7 of my older story. I need to go through that. Honestly I'm thinking of just starting chapter 20 tonight. There are days where you just want to sit and write and write and write. Apparently today is one of those for me. I'll either update later today or tomorrow depending on when I finish chapter 20.

❥ Stay Safe

Monday, July 13, 2020

Technically an update

It took a long time but I finally managed to finish chapter 17. I had to do it in smaller time sections. I just wasn't in a mental state to be able to do it for longer. I also had to take breaks as I was struggling to figure out what I wanted from the chapter.

In the time since I last posted I had another idea. I've been writing what little I have, and doing slow world building. I don't plan to seriously write it until I finish the book I'm currently working on. Though I may end up writing both at once (switching back and forth depending on my mood). Might make me manage to do more writing. More writing means I'll get better at writing.

Still been slowly editing my other book. I've had to leave some of it for later as it would require me to compare the two documents next to each other. Normally she marks what she changed in yellow, but sometimes she doesn't and I'd have to go back and forth to figure out what she changed. I don't want to accept changes when I don't know what they are.

I finally got stuff for pain management that is actually working with no real side effects so far. I'll be keeping an eye out for side effects though. So that's a definite improvement and why I've been able to sit and write so much today. I've been writing for at least an hour, and managed about 1,500 words.

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