Weekly Progress Update:

Weekly Progress Update:

Whew, lot’s of progress this weekend.

I’m at 95% with the first round of editing Madness. I have 11 pages left and 4 chapters, which I’ll probably finish next weekend. After that, it’s onward to formatting and getting the cover prepped to make an ARC.

With only the last 5% left, I definitely enjoy this story – even more than Honor by a large margin. It’s fun to see just how much I’ve learned since starting out, both in writing and editing.

For the rest of the week, I – once again – skipped my Skirmish and 50-word Fantasy Prompts due to distractions. I should be able to start them again this week without much issue, and I’m considering probably going back and doing the previous ones I skipped and back-dating them so they fall in line. So far I’ve only missed one Skirmish and two Prompts, so it would only be about an hour or two to catch up. We’ll see how the week goes.

Overall, while I’m about a month behind the original schedule, I think Madness is coming along really well. My plan is to get a few copies out to some people and try to get as much detailed feedback as possible within about two months. Then, I’ll go through it all again myself for a final check.

Based on that, I’d anticipate it being about four months just for those two steps alone, and would probably end up publishing around September, if I had to guess. My original intention was between June and September, so I’m going to be a bit on the late end, but I wanted to take as much time as I needed to be meticulous. All things considered, I definitely don’t regret that and think the story will be much better for it.

Once I’m finished with my own first round of editing, I’ll be jumping right back into Book Three – which I’m pretty stoked for. All three books are in pretty vastly different scenarios, which makes it really fun to transition from one into the other (all while keeping in line with the plot, of course).

I’ve had some thoughts on what to do for the fourth book. Possibly a side-story with a background of one of the other characters in the past, such as possibly Chakal or Cormac. They have really interesting backstories that I’d love to explore more and get onto paper. Technically, I could use Skirmishes for those things and eventually I’ll run out of content for Fangdarr and Bitrayuul’s Skirmishes, so I may just start there. We’ll see how it plays out!

See you all next week.