Another Good Week

Losing my Shit!Not as awesome a production week as the previous one but still very good progress on multiple fronts. Instead of maximizing word count I was into maximizing project completion while contractors swarmed all over my yard making noise.

Also, I don’t have a dog and its way after the 4th holiday but I just have to share the image on the right. It feels so – true.

Onto the weekly specifics:

  • Saving Brackett Station has gone through review, been torn apart, and then put back together, stronger and better than before. Just finished the second edit so it’s ready for a final review phase. Final word count is 5,851 as of today.
  • The Prince, my newest short story was completed earlier today as well. It comes in at around 7,850 words for its first draft. Needs a review to catch those initial mistakes and then it’ll be sent out for alpha-readers to tear apart.
  • Some additions/clean-up on Built for Murderbut nothing to write home about.

Between the edits and writing new material I managed somewhere north of 4,850 words for the week. The days where I did nothing but write were 1,400 words on Mon, 1,475 on  Thurs, and 1,975 on Sat. Not really bad for the week. The other days my wrists ached and fingers were too numb to type, so I took some time off away from the keyboard.

Still, plenty of progress. SBS is on track for publication in September, and if TP survives reviews I expect it to be ready for October. In addition, I plan to place it into my first short story collection I’m going to call Tales of Bulinnärm also slated for October release. It will be my first book length release since my programming books released in the mid 1990’s. I’m also planning to set it up in CreateSpace so that physical POD copies will be available for those that want them. Another first.

This week I’m planning to devote my time to finishing Built for Murder. For some reason the final chapters won’t settle in my head and I’m having problems getting them placed correctly. But, once I solve that little problem I think I might be able to complete it real soon now! And won’t that be a relief.

Well, time’s a wasting, so its back to work for me.

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Now suffering in the hinterlands of Michigan while trying to transform myself into a fiction author. Don't wait up.
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