Howdy folks, how are we all doing?

I’m at the end of a week off from work that started off really well writing wise but petered off in the middle fo the week and finally today it has picked up again. Even though I had a couple of days where I haven’t done any writing work I still feel like I’ve got a lot of work done. I received editors notes back on Penal Earth and have got those done and sent off to be formatted. That one is getting close, folks.

Work on Penal Earth: Book Two is progressing, I cannibalised a few sections of an earlier draft of book one at the start of the week and added maybe twelve thousand words to the draft. This has led to me doing an edit pass. I’m going through making adjustments to how story elements have changed as I’ve being writing. Finding continuity problems. One example of that is one of the new characters for this second book had two different back stories. I’ve decided to use the one that came to life more recently as I think it gives a new element to this world and the surrounding universe. I also need to integrate the words I’ve pulled from the earlier draft to not only bring it into this story, but to also bring it to the level of writing where I am at now. I’ve grown a lot since I originally wrote what I’ve pulled, but the core of it, I really like. What I’ve pulled fits into this book better than they would have done if I’d tried to force them into book one. They would have been out of place there and in book two they’re not only (I hope) fun and entertaining but also build the story along with the universe. It’s just going to take a bit of work to bring it up to where it needs to be with continuity and quality.

I’ve done a little work on Black Blood this last week too. Not much, I took to a note pad and wrote down a dialogue sequence that has been working it’s way around my head the last few weeks, and last night I just had to get it out. I know where it’s going to go when I get back to working on Black Blood, and I’m kinda itching to get back to it. But I’ve got Penal Earth book two first draft to finish before that, and War Child is holding its hand up as well.

I need to learn how to organise myself a little. I’ve got a lot of stories that I’m balancing at the moment and I need to find a way to maximise my writing time to get each one of these projects moving in an order to get them completed.

This coming week I’m back to work, which I’m looking forward to, and I’m hoping I can get back to where I was where I’m getting writing work done each day regardless of what’s going on.

Right folks, have an awesome week ahead.