Weekly Progress Update:

Weekly Progress Update:

Alright, on to Book Three!

So, I didn’t get much writing done this weekend. I’m part-way through Chapter 3. However, while I’ve laid out the general plot outline for how I’d like the story to go, I keep feeling like something is off – and I don’t like it. Every paragraph I start is just feeling sort of bland. Overall, I’m probably overthinking it and it is most likely fine. But I’m not looking for fine.

So, I halted my progress this morning and decided to go through my outline in much more detail than I normally would. This time, I’m going to do a bit of a roadmap of every scene just to get a more in-depth feel for every step of the book. That’s not my normal process, but this time my standard isn’t working. No big deal, it just means I need to take it slower. I don’t want to rush into the next book and truck through mediocre progress for the sake of it. Quality needs to stay in mind.

That’s about it for this weekend. I fleshed out the names of the key character I’ll be introducing in the book (this halted my progress on Saturday, which was annoying). This week, I’ll start to look at my outline in detail and analyze it. My hope is I can find the reason why it seems off and bland – then correct it. The content I’ve written so far (excluding the Prologue, which I thoroughly enjoyed) in the first few chapters just has not been interesting. And if it’s not interesting to me, it won’t be interesting to you. So, before I make any more progress, I’m going back to the drawing board and starting over with only about two days of effort lost. I’ll let you know next weekend how things are going.

On the note of Madness, Beta Readers have their copies (or will receive them in the mail today) to get started on feedback. They’ll have as much as they can get to back to me by the end of June. From there, I’ll probably need about two months to go through everything and get ready for publishing. So, we’re looking at September for now.