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The Writings on the Wall #48 - Words, more words, always more words!
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Greetings from the Xen’in Universe! I am happy to report that I just completed an extremely productive month, ending up this time with 76,390 words. Not quite as good as June (85,281) but more than twice what I’d achieved the previous month (33,560). More importantly, I finally finished writing “The Bands of Turambar” which is the first novel in a trilogy of tie-in novels for the Dragon Dice setting I’m doing for TreeShaker Books. I’m really happy with how it turned out, too, even if it took me much longer to complete (3 months!) than what I had anticipated (1 month). Incidentally, this is the tenth novel I’ve written so far. I feel like I need to celebrate this somehow lol. I’ve also completed another short story (the sixth) set in my epic fantasy SBS setting and wrote a new scene for the first novel in that same meta-series—and I absolutely love it! What’s in the future? Well, I need to edit the Turambar novel, obviously, and send it out to the publisher (this should take about a week), then I’ll get cracking on its sequel. I also have quite a few short story ideas swirling in my head that I’ll see if I can sneak in between novel-writing sessions. And that’s all I have for now! Coming up this monthI started writing a new entry in the Silius Chronicles, so you can expect this to drop in a couple of weeks—either the 15th or the 22nd, depending when I get it done, we’ll see. Does it have a title? Why, yes, it does, thank you for asking! This fifth installment shall be known as… “Tranquil Breath of a Sleepless Child.” I’ll let you mull over that one for a while ;) It currently has about 1,700 words, so still some ways to go. Not sure how many this one will have in the end, though I do know where the story is going, so that’s something. See you next month! *** If you like my writing, please consider buying a copy of my novel, upgrading to a paid subscription, or making a Paypal or Ko-fi donation. As an independent author, any of these would help a lot!
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