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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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[LIKE] - [COMMENT] - [SHARE] NOTE: these links point to Substack! PREFACE: And so we return to eddo Silius. This installment is more of a transitional one. It sets up a lot of little details that will play a role later in the series. And while it should theoretically work as a standalone, this one relies a lot more on what was established previously. So I strongly encourage you to read the previous four stories before this one—and it all started here. XXX. Today, I bought a new house. It...
[LIKE] - [COMMENT] - [SHARE] NOTE: these links point to Substack! It’s 3 am and I saw it again, clawing at the wall across the street. Its screech drew me from sleep, ringing in my ears as if it screamed inside my head. It’s been ten nights and I am breaking at the seams! I cannot take this any longer. Why is it singling me out? No one else sees, let alone hears it. I asked. All I got were empty stares. I can tell they think I’m nuts. And maybe I am. What is wrong with me? I need to sleep!...
[LIKE] - [COMMENT] - [SHARE] NOTE: these links point to Substack! Greetings from the Xen’in Universe! So I’ll start with the good news. I got more words done in August than in July. 33,560 words vs 19,320. Still lower than what I pulled in June (85,281) but it’s on the way back up. One thing I figured out though is why my numbers tend to dip like that. I mean, obviously, if I procrastinate, I won’t be as prolific. But that’s not what’s going on here. Or, rather, it’s not the root cause. The...