Still editing a bit every morning before work. Somewhere between 70 & 80% done with Book 3’s 2nd edit….

I hope to get the cover finished this week but I make no promises!

Actually had a low week writing last week (binge watching a TV show… naughty naughty) but did make some progress.

Still have writers block on the 2nd half of Book 5 but hopefully something will spark up in the next couple of months!

read the latest Schooled in Magic book, Oathkeeper, over the last week or so when too tired to write or whatever when not working – good as always. I do like Chris Nuttall’s SiM series.

Back to work….

 

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I am past halfway in my edit of Book 3 and I have made some progress on the cover – I hope. So things are progressing. I am struggling with inspiration for book 5 – I have the first third, a bit in the middle and a bit near the end but the writing muse refuses to illuminate the missing areas…. I think this is what is called writers block.

I have lots of ideas for other stories, as always. Working 40-45 hours a week as an Uber driver makes it hard to find time to write a great amount each week – not because I don;t have enough free time but because I don’t have enough free time when I’m not mentally drained.

My current plan is that Book 3 will be followed by the first of my contemporary Wizard stories. “A Sorcerer Arrives” when Jason the Ancient History PHD student meets Urasmian the Sorcerer from an alternate Earth. At it’s heart it a story about a young man who gains great power and then has to deal with having great power.

I have found I made a mistake in my Space Opera story that was 3/4 finished and I now have to re-write the last 1/3 of what I’d written. Joy.

Anyway shouldn’t be too long before I have more to report.

 

I have started the 2nd edit on book 3 – As I may have mentioned before I find editing very tiring so I try an not attempt to do too much of it at any one time. Looking for strange word usage errors, occasional spelling errors that have slipped through, convoluted sentence structures, sentences where my brain was moving faster than my fingers were typing and so forth is something best done in small doses.  I start each day with a small session of editing while my mind is still fresh.

I am still struggling with book five – it’s only about half written and I have a lack of ideas happening about getting the story from points b or C through to the finish. Sigh Apparently an occupational hazard to have stories stall.

I have submitted a small short story for an Australian alternate history anthology – have had no word yet on whether my story made the cut – still it was satisfying that I was able to come up with an idea on short notice. If the story misses the cut I may include that version of the Earth in one of my Multidimensional Wizard books. Actually that makes a lot of sense to re-use all the backstory I did… hmmm

Right – back to editing… sigh