Weekly Writing Progress
DLA (Revisions): Two chapters reviewed, plot timeline started.
24C: 500 words
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This week hasn’t been as productive as I would have liked, but it’s my own fault, and I did make progress, so I can’t complain too much. I got some words in on 24C, and started plotting that a bit as I go. Getting to know the primary characters is the most important part of the first few scenes for me, and I’m definitely getting a feel for the personalities I have to work with, which makes the writing go a bit more quickly.
I’ve also gotten some work done on revisions for DLA. I read through the first couple of chapters, reoriented myself to the characters and how the story starts, and started plotting it out in Plottr, using an action template as a guide (and I just added a romance plot line to the timeline). So, moving along with that as well.
It feels like it’s taking *forever* just because I don’t have that much time each day to work on it. Half an hour is barely time to get anything done, and I’ve been using that first half-hour to plot, and then my reading time at night to read the draft.
And of course I need to be moving 24C along as well if I want to meet my new publishing goals, so that gets half an hour too, but I had one “throw-away” night this week, the next night I had to install updates on my Freewrite, etc. It just is what it is, but I may have to figure out a way to work on the revisions/plotting while I’m watching TV or something, just to make faster progress with that part.
I’d work on them over the weekends, but on the weekends I need to do things like these blog posts, and updating cover art, updating book files and finding marketing and cover art images. Right now, it’s 3:14am and I just spend a couple of hours setting my very first book up on Ingram Spark for publication there…which was going pretty well until I couldn’t find my formatted print file for it. So now, I can add reformatting Tempest to my to-do list, and considering Amazon is having a hard time republishing it since I went in and checked out the record there, it might have to be sooner rather than later.
Though I’ve been thinking maybe I should update it a bit, since I have to reformat it and publish it under a new ISBN anyways (when I first published it, I used a free ISBN from CreateSpace, so I need to swap that out for one of mine, which means unpublishing that one and republishing the new one back on Amazon after I get it published on Ingram.
Publishing print is a pain in the butt, honestly. But I love print books, and I’ll keep publishing them for those who do.
Now, it’s time to get some sleep so I can at least half-heartedly tackle the weekend once I finally crawl out of bed. The hubby and I are headed to a Rock & Gem show tomorrow. Any guesses about how many book ideas I come home with?
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