Well, the final editing stages before I can publish to Kindle have taken longer than originally planned. That's okay! I'd rather have precise, careful edits and comments than rushed ones. On a more exciting note, while waiting for those edits to come in, I've been working on the sequel every night. Since January 1st I've written about 18,000 words. The plot is planned out in my head! Hopefully the pieces will continue to fall into place.
If I can keep this current pace, I should be able to finish the first draft by the summer. Fingers crossed!
I guess I can attribute some of my pace to the sad fact that it has been a terrible snow season up in the mountains, so I haven't been using every weekend to ski. Hopefully the last few months of the season will be better. I'll be doing my snow dance. On a related note, I will be on a three week break from work during February and into the first week of March. Maybe I'll get to do a lot of writing and skiing!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Book one and the sequel
Well, book one has been finished for some time now, and I'm only waiting on the changes and critiques being made by my editors. Stanley Finnigan and the Race around the Universe is a middle-grade novel written for ten- to thirteen-year-olds who enjoy science fiction, adventure, and humor. Hopefully it will be published on Kindle soon!
At the moment, however, I'm more excited about the sequel. Stanley is part of a planned four book series, in which each sequel is told through the point-of-view of a different character from the first novel. While I don't want to reveal more, I am now thirty five pages into the first sequel and am eager to "watch" the plot develop. This second book will be exploring much more challenging themes, as well as more involved theoretical physics.
As thrilling as it is to be developing a new book for the first time in three years, I've reached my most anxious point, in which about three-fourths of the novel is planned in my brain, and I have to be patient enough to get to each part of the plot. However, having completed the first novel, which really started as a debut, first-attempt, skeleton-like version of a book, I feel experience is helping greatly with taking the careful time and consideration to fill in all plot points and details necessary for a successful sequel.
At the moment, however, I'm more excited about the sequel. Stanley is part of a planned four book series, in which each sequel is told through the point-of-view of a different character from the first novel. While I don't want to reveal more, I am now thirty five pages into the first sequel and am eager to "watch" the plot develop. This second book will be exploring much more challenging themes, as well as more involved theoretical physics.
As thrilling as it is to be developing a new book for the first time in three years, I've reached my most anxious point, in which about three-fourths of the novel is planned in my brain, and I have to be patient enough to get to each part of the plot. However, having completed the first novel, which really started as a debut, first-attempt, skeleton-like version of a book, I feel experience is helping greatly with taking the careful time and consideration to fill in all plot points and details necessary for a successful sequel.
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