Well, my summer hiatus turned out to be not so much of a hiatus after all! Instead of focusing on programming languages, reading, relaxing and learning Japanese, I ended up getting frustrated at my programming languages learning (Yeah, I got stuck on a chapter, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got it down now) and wound up writing up a massive stack of on-paper notes for my Hades\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Boys<\/b> paranormal romance \/ urban fantasy series onto my computer.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really glad that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been able to use some time to type them up though. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been typing them now for a few weeks and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve amassed a rather frightening amount of words on screen. There are seven brothers, so seven books, and so far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve typed out 45,801 words in eight documents (one is a general notes document). I obviously have more notes for the earlier books in the series, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably have to write at least the first three before fleshing out the remaining four. I also have more notes to write up, especially for the general notes document. And character bios to type up too.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to get these written, but, at the moment, I need to focus on building a bunch of releases that will cover me whilst I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing these stories. I want to write them all together, so my flow remains constant and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in the world and the characters. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to have to break into them by writing novellas and other stories, or editing during my writing phase for them. I suppose it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all down to how much time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take me to write them. The last thing I want to do is to release the first one without writing the rest. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to end up not finishing the series.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll all be around the 100,000 word mark, which feels about right to me for this sort of story. Writing a 100,000 word story in first draft, when I have it planned quite well, usually takes me around four or five weeks. I write fast. Of course, that depends on any interruptions that might crop up. I never write when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to break off to go on holiday (oh, what a shame! I need a good holiday…) or have other things pressing on me. If I had a straight run at these seven stories, and take into account a couple of weeks of planning time for each novel, and the maximum five weeks per novel to write… that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 7 x 7 weeks… 49 weeks. Eep! A year then basically. Hopefully, I would get them done quicker than that. Even then, I would end up with a massive stack of editing to wade through the year after. Grr.<\/p>\n
Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to switch between writing the first drafts and editing the earlier stories to keep the ball moving.<\/p>\n
At the moment, I have a decent amount of releases to cover next year, but I have other stories I want to write in that time. More about that later though!<\/p>\n
Ja ne! (later!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, my summer hiatus turned out to be not so much of a hiatus after all! Instead of focusing on programming languages, reading, relaxing and learning Japanese, I ended up getting frustrated at my programming languages learning (Yeah, I got … Continue reading