Weekly Progress Update

Weekly Progress Update

Hope everyone had a good weekend, it was pretty busy here (I say that as someone who likes their weekends to be entirely empty – so ‘busy’ means one thing planned basically).

I went out this weekend with my cousin who is getting interested in writing. After reading Orcblood Legacy: Honor, he’s discovered an interest in Fantasy – which is awesome! I’ve given him the first trilogy of R. A. Salvatore’s Drizzt series, which was the series that got me deeply involved in Fantasy. Hopefully it will serve as an inspiration for him as well. It’s a long series, but one I’d recommend to any Fantasy fans.

Overall, he’s got some cool ideas on a plot he’d like to work on and I’m pretty excited to see what he puts together. Writing is something I always try to find more people to talk to about, but it’s pretty difficult. Most are pretty secluded, among a few other quirks. I hope it’s something he comes to enjoy, as I have, but we’ll see how it plays out. He’s young and there’s a lot to discover – both in writing and out.

As far as writing this weekend, I was really excited to get some scenes in. In the final act, some of the major events that I’ve had planned for months are finally making their way onto the pages and it’s great to be able to get them played out. For any who read the Skirmishes, there is an Easter Egg hidden within Book Two that only those who have read them may realize. The story will make sense even without knowledge of the Skirmishes, but it’ll certainly be much more impactful if you’re aware of some of the side events I’ve written about on the site.

There is still a lot left to go! I’m currently at 116,000 words and on Chapter Sixty. I would estimate probably 10 or more chapters left, but it’s hard to say. There are still a couple of major events that need to occur. It’s some back-to-back action that I hope will leave people on the edge of their couch cushions, eager to flip the page and forcing themselves to stay awake to keep going. But I’m a bit biased. 🙂

Only time will tell, I suppose. My wife and I go on vacation at the end of the month and I’d like the first draft to be completed by then. So only 3 more weekends left until then. Pretty exciting to almost be done. I’ve already got some plans for Book Three and will probably start on that almost immediately after I’m finished with Book Two’s first draft and attempt to juggle editing and writing between Book Two and Book Three. Damn, I really need to think of a name for Book Two, we’re getting too close now and I hate identifying it as ‘Book Two’ all the time.

A battle for another day! See you all next week!