December Plan Update (Part 2)

Things are still going pretty well this month, although I've had to adjust my plan again.

The line edit for Towers ended up turning in to a pretty in-depth copy edit. It took me about twenty hours to get through it and make the fixes I wanted. It could still use some spit and polish, but I think it's a much tighter, more coherent book now. I have one last tweak I want to make, and then it'll be as ready as it's going to get in order to send to my brother and sister for Christmas. I may do another pass on it one of these days, although for right now, my energies should probably go toward other edits.

That leaves me yet another week behind and in need of dropping yet another project. Five in a month was nuts. Four in a month was reasonable but ambitious. Three is probably more December-speed.

So. Since I'm already deeply entrenched in the Mythos world, I'm going to step back in to writing book three once I'm done my book two edits. That makes the most sense, anyway. When I decided to drop Witches, it didn't really make a lot of sense to throw another world in there. As much as I would have liked to make some progress on Sally Prescott, it's also a low priority. Besides, I'm not in the right headspace for her right now.

I will check back in after this weekend, but as of right now, my revised plan for December ended up being:

1. Finish Cafe Story
2. Edit Towers of Kansas
3. Write words on Scions of Mythos

I'm not too worried about word count goals anymore. I wrote a couple thousand words for the Cafe story. I added about a thousand words on the book two edit, and I hope to be able to write that 10k I was aiming for on book three. So maybe something like 15k for the month. That's about average this year, and equals about a thousand words a day each day for the rest of this year.

Now, I know I won't write every day. But. I average around 1200 words a day when I'm really working, so I can afford to take a couple of days off. And tonight is the new moon. After going back to track the last year, it seems like I'm most productive editing-wise leading up to the new moon and more productive writing-wise leading up to the full moon. Most months, anyway. So yeah! The next two weeks should be good.

I've also spent some time putting together a business plan for when I submit book one to one last publishing company when they open in January. It's a last-ditch for this book as far as traditional publishing. For now, at least. Which does make it a little harder to work on book three. But at the same time, also less hard. I'm not writing book three for a larger audience anymore. I'm writing it for me and for my writing friends and my siblings. Knowing my audience will be nice. Not getting hung up on what other readers will think should really free up my creativity. It's allowed to be mediocre. Although it turns out I really, really love book two. I'm proud of how it all came together. I know I will love book three just as much.

But I digress.

I'll update how this thrice-revised plan is going next week. Until then, peace be with you.