Weekly Progress Update:

Weekly Progress Update:

Mmk, this week has not been productive – but I expected that. This month will be difficult to reach meaningful goals due to my day job having some extra stress. It’s a bummer since I was glad to finally be moving forward steadily and this threw me off. But, it can’t be helped.

I’m still at 50%, leaving me around 60 days to get the second half of Madness edited. That’s enough time, though the reduced availability during September has me a bit worried. I have a week of vacation planned in early October, which I plan to devote to getting caught up.

In other news, the next Fantasy Short Story Contest starts in just a few weeks! The contest will begin October 1st – the Prompt for participants to follow will be announced on that date and can begin working on their submissions to be considered for the prizes like last quarter.

Lastly, while my editing progress was immobilized, I finally made the decision of my future works. I’ve mentioned it a few times over the past few months, but it was really a major struggle to consider. I posted the plans on my Facebook page, but they are posted below as well. Soon, I’ll probably place them on my website’s Home page so that new fans can see what is in the works.

Upcoming Plans:

𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
Nov 2019 – May 2020: Write Spin-Off
May 2020 – Nov 2020: Write Book 3
Nov 2020 – May 2021: Edit Book 3
𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝟯
May 2021 – Nov 2021: Edit Spin-Off
𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗻-𝗢𝗳𝗳
Nov 2021 – May 2022: Write Prequel
May 2022 – Nov 2022: Edit Prequel
𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹

The timeline is, of course, tentative. Based on my previous works, I estimate a rough scope of 6 months to write each novel and 6 months for editing. Those may fluctuate by up to 50% in either direction, if I had to guess, so this is just a clean layout of the hopeful plans.

It’ll be a new challenge to write two books back-to-back, just to push off the next for an entire year before coming back to it. On one hand, it may be good to distance myself from it for a year and look at it from a completely different perspective. After all, a LOT changes in how you think as a writer in a year – trust me. However, I have to worry that the separation may leave me distracted for the next novel, or that I may lose interest by the time I go to edit the Spin-off a year later.

We’ll see how it goes. All I knew was that there was an undeniable necessity to start with the Spin-off. So, I have to go with my gut on that one.

It’s going to be a challenging path ahead, but I’m stoked for it.