We need to have a talk about my current writing and editing plans. To prepare Book 2 for publishing and continue progress on my other projects, I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that my current schedule—publishing five chapters a week (three for Penance and two for Mists)—is impacting my ability to make meaningful progress. Editing is a lot of work, more than writing for me at this point, and for the past 5 weeks, all I have been doing is editing chapters and publishing them on the day that they are due. This is not sustainable for me. It is impacting the quality of the work I produce, and quite frankly slowing my writing down.
Starting Monday, I’ll be posting Penance chapters once a week, on Mondays, for the next eight chapters. I’ll will move Mists to a once-a-week schedule as well (Tuesdays). This adjustment will allow me to split my weekly 12 hours of writing time into 6 hours for writing and 6 hours for editing (I already work around 55 hours a week as a teacher). With this balance, I’ll be able to make headway on both current projects and edits, as well as provide more future content for my loyal readers. I am so very sorry that I have to do this, but If I don't I'm going to end up missing days altogether, and at least this way you are guaranteed a chapter a week.
Goals and Timeline
* By March, I aim to return to my regular schedule, or potentially release more depending on how much prescheduling I'm able to do.
* Mists should be finished and fully edited by then, meeting my standards and ready for publishing to the end. I plan to do 5 a week on this to get it finished.
* I plan to begin publishing my next story in April. I am deciding between two stories. One is a superhero stuck in a time loop, another is a mage-lit RPG with Spell Fusion as its central Conceit.
* Finish edits on book 1 of penance date to be announced
* Finish edits on book 2 publish date to be announced.
For Penance, this change will let me focus on:
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* Writing the 40,000 words of edits needed for book 2.
* Reincorporating the LitRPG elements that I went too light on initially.
* Getting a significant chunk of new chapters written and scheduled by March for book 3 so that I can get back to releasing 3-5 a week.
For Mists, this change will let me focus on:
* Writing the 40,000-60,000 words of writing needed to finish
* Allowing me to have a finished book to approach a publisher with.
* Getting the rest of the book scheduled so there will be no further delays in my publishing schedule.
Penance Amazon Release I don’t have a release date for Penance on Amazon yet. I’ve finished developmental edits and am waiting on line editing. Once I have a confirmed date, I’ll update you all and include a stubbing date in the title. All I can say is that it is very very soon.
I apologize for the repetitiveness. This has to have a minimum of 500 words or I can't hit submit lol.