Week 3 July Camp Nano ends in 74002 words! That’s just over 17k words on last week, so a much lower word count. It was mostly expected as I knew there was going to be a sticky point right inside the fight scene. But after much back and forth, the fix finally settled into place […]
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Week 2 July Camp Nano ends in 56658 words! That’s nearly 37k words on last week, and I hit the 2/3 mark, way above target. With this weeks fast progress this week I’m nearing into Act 3. Act 3 is going require a lot of work in places, but if this progress keeps up I
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Week 1 July Camp Nano ends in 19778 words! I’m slightly ahead of Nano target, which is always nice, though its a long way to go before I get to the finish line. Draft 3 of Battered by Storms has gone pretty well. There have been some sticky bits that I’d expected and a few
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The plan for 2023 July Camp Nano is to finish Battered by Storms Draft 3 for Camp nano, but it will depend on the length of the final revision. In theory, If I hit these averages its possible. But something could always go wrong. What is Camp Nano? Camp Nano happens in April and July,
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Wohoo, another draft bites the dust. I have completed Draft 2 of Book 3 – Battered by Storms and its nearly ready for Beta. I broke a couple of things by the end of Draft 2 so it needs another a 3rd draft before I’ll torture anyone with it.
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I ordered proof copies of my paperbacks through Draft 2 Digital for book 1 of Rift Bloodlines and Ernie’s collection. They look pretty cool I think. The font is too small, so I will defiantly need to get a new proof, but having these both in hand feels amazing. I should get the Proof edit
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I have the Copy edits back for Rift Bloodlines Book 1 – Buried by Earth…. and I have finished reviewing them. For some reason, I’d thought this process would take a few weeks, but it didn’t – which is a nice change to over estimate 😉. I learned that I clearly don’t understand commas, and
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Draft 2 of all the short stories for Rift Bloodlines are done! I’ve added a page to show my pretty new covers for them, and their titles. Origin Short Stories for Rift Bloodlines When I was writing the Rift Bloodlines series, I was struggling a bit with motivations around the characters’ wounds and how it
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I got NaNoWriMo finished last week, and I was just shy of finishing Rift Bloodlines Book 2, but I made it over the line of Thursday. So book 2 Draft 2 is officially done! It’s not as clean as I was hoping, having gone from 35k to 71k long – though, to be fair, 15k
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This last fortnight, I have been working on the two prequels for Book 2 of the Rift Bloodlines series. Amelia’s story came out around 8k and Mitchel’s came out around 9k. Both longer than I’d planned. But the end result was worth those extra words. I wrote prequel shorts to each of the Rift Bloodlines
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