Wee– … Progress Update

Wee– … Progress Update

Hey everyone!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I apologize for not posting updates recently. A bit of an explanation may be owed.

Normally, I’m a firm believer in carrying over directly into the next project in order to maintain momentum. I actually attempted to do this by going straight into Book 3 after I had finished the first draft of Madness. However, juggling writing and editing was a bit difficult and both projects were suffering because of it. So, I made the decision to halt all progress on Book 3 to prioritize releasing Madness in a quality I was happy with.

Unfortunately, the fearful reasoning why I strive to jump right into the subsequent project occurred – my momentum had halted.

Now, it’s only been about 2-3 weeks since Madness was released and I haven’t started writing Book 3 yet. Most people think that isn’t much, but the real time-frame is that I haven’t actually written since May, when I finished the first draft of Madness. So, it’s actually been almost 7 months.

This is something that bugs the crap out of me and stresses me out. I want to get back to work. I feel I need to get back to work. And I know I will . . . eventually.

One of the reasons I’ve been unable to get back in is distractions. During the time I write my books, I cut out as many distractions as possible. It’s a cost to pay at the benefit of keeping focus and delivering a final result – something that had eluded me for 6 years, originally. I realized that without cutting out distractions, I would never finish.

Now that I’ve had a taste of freedom, I started to let myself get distracted. I wanted to just take a few weeks and catch up on all the things that I had missed by choice, knowing it was a slippery slope that could end up ceasing all writing for a long period of time.

Which is where I’m at now, ish. As I had been writing routinely for two years straight, I consider even the 3 weeks since Madness‘ release to be a long period of time. Every weekend I don’t write, I stress about it. I have to get back to it.

My current goal is that, no matter what, as of January 1st I plan to completely gut out all distractions again and sit back down. Ideally, I want it to be sooner. But that’s my ultimate deadline. With that, I give myself some time to unwind, finish ‘relaxing’ with the distractions I’ve picked up, and know the timeline is set. However, I’m trying to transition sooner than that.

So, bear with me for the time being. I still have everything laid out and am eager to move on to the next book. Your feedback on Madness will be paramount for inching me closer to that goal, so I’d love to hear what you think if you’ve read Book 2 already. Once I start writing again, I know I’ll be more diligent with my updates, as I’ll be proud to have something to report. (For the time, I really don’t want to just put out an arbitrary whine about how I’m not getting anything done, because no one wants to hear that)

TL;DR: Book 3 should be started soon!

Thanks everyone, have a great winter!