It has been a hot second since I’ve written in my blog, y’all! I’m so sorry, but things have gotten and remained busy after the Hippo Online Event (one of my jobs haha) that I fell out of the habit of writing in my blog. But here I am, and I have progress to report!
So the first official month of writing Project Murder House has ended with half of the second gone, and things are relatively smooth despite my deciding to start this massive undertaking in the middle of the holiday season! * face-palm * But, despite the ill-timing, as of today, I’ve written and edited the prologue and first six chapters of PMH to the draft 3, and chapters 7 - 10 have reached draft 2 status with only two chapters left to go this month before the ultimate week of December when I’ll edit these six new chapters to draft 3.
But PMH is not the only project I’m undertaking — oh no, I hope y’all remembered, there’s more. Our Holy Mother: Evercrown, book 1, is now up to chapter 21 — mother loving chapter 21! — which puts this epic fantasy novel of mine nearly at the halfway-point. And, might I add, that for only writing one or two chapters in this novel a month for the past couple months, that is pretty impressive — not that I’m tooting my own horn or anything, psh, that’s ridiculous.
And — yes, you remembered correctly, I’m writing three things, hahaha! — my short story series, Project Apocalypse, has seen its third story written! Now, I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but after over a year of plotting these stories and putting them on the back burner because I had no idea how to organize three books simultaneously at the time which made me find reason after reason to not write them . . . three stories is immense progress. Besides, I’ve got the fourth story to write this week and then I may even start editing them to draft 3 status this ultimate week alongside some extra OHME chapters.
So, if you haven’t been following me on my socials, a lot of that might sound jumbled — lemme summarize. I’ve talked about my writing process on here — write two chapters in PMH, write another installment alternating between OHME and PA, edit said installments, edit a past chapter of OHME to draft 3, then edit PMH to draft 3 on the final week. All of that remains the same, but now I’m calling the final week of every month the Ultimate Week (imagine a wrestling announcer say that haha) and it isn’t only dedicated to PMH. The reason why is simple — draft 3 edits are HELLA easy and take less than half the time than draft 2 edits. I was able to edit the first seven instalments in PMH in three days and I was dragging my feet) and then I still had three or so days to edit more OHME chapters. And because of that, I’ve bumped back the time-table on editing OHME to draft 3 to only a few more months, and then I can relax a little by cutting OHME draft 3 edits to ultimate weeks alongside PMH and even PA instalments.
I knew D3 editing was going to be easier, but seeing it move that fast and leave me still pretty energized after-the-fact has me motivated to capitalize my time every ultimate week. Maybe this writing thing doesn’t have to be so hard after all * flashes of marketing and publishing horrors flash before my eyes with a dead smile * yeah . . . it’ll be fine.
Alright y’all, my writing’s on track, my progress is steady, my life’s coming together, and I haven’t murdered anyone — all good things, I think. I’ll post on here one more time before the year’s up and we move into 2021 — crazy to think New Years is around the corner. I’ll see y’all next time! Bye!