Not updated in a while, so here is a
quick one. Sadly, we've had a death in the family so writing has not
been the top of my agenda, and so updating this blog has taken a bit
of a back seat too.
I am up to 15'000 words now though, so
I'm getting back into making progress as of this week on book 2.
However, by my calculations I will need to be doing around 3'500
words a day in order to get to 50'000 words by end of January (my
rough target of book length). I don't think I am going to make my
planned target of the first draft done by end of January.
Regardless, it was a nice target to try
and hit. Instead I'll aim for first draft complete come end of
February. We'll see.
Progress on the printed version of the
first book is going better. I submitted a revised manuscript to
Createspace with some minor updates and tweaks to the font and pages,
so the interior of the book is ready to go. Likewise my wonderful
illustrator Mat has submitted updated images for the front cover and
spine which is excellent. Now if I can just configure the
back-spine-front cover PDF we will be more or less ready. Then all I
need to wait on will be the IRS sending me the needed tax code in
order to begin printing. Whether the code arrives by the end of the
week or not is debatable. But a man can hope!
I've also been working on another short
story. This ones theme, 'visit to a stately home' was put on the
back burner during Christmas as everyone was a tad busy. Now, with a
bit more time, I'm putting the finishing touches to my attempt. I
hope to post it up on this blog soon.
Twitter has also been very good, with
1'500 people now following me and lots of fellow authors in the mix.
I'm been doing my best to tweet and retweet as often as possible.
So we're still good. In fact if I can
avoid playing Halo 4 progress will be even better. As I said, a man
can hope...
