As the new year rolled around I decided I needed to make some changes. Writing had to take a higher priority and goofing off had to be moved down the list. It didn't hurt that I'd just started writing
Bull and the Goblin Raid (more about that in a later post) and was loving it. Writing in the first person was a fun, refreshing change. So I said goodbye to my spaceships in
EVE Online and said hello to
Scrivener (writing software)
.
Part of my transformation involved getting back to my habit of tracking my work on spreadsheets.
I love my spreadsheets. They keep me motivated and on track. For this one I added an "Hours Editing" column and for my "Adjusted Average" word count calculation I counted one hour of editing, proofreading, and other book work as 500 words written. I'm trying to keep the Adjusted Average over 1,000 words per day.
A lot of my time has been spent on
Bull and the Iron Band, book two in
The Green Wyvern series I've just started. While I've been writing my new series,
The Emerald Gate has been out with my beta readers and editors.
We're in the homestretch now. The final copies of
The Emerald Gate have been sent out to the publishers and are available for pre-order now. The actual release date is April 23rd. It's just a little more than a week away.
I'm very excited for the publication of
The Emerald Gate. It is the last book of
The Orb and represents the end of a writing adventure that began my sophomore year in college over twenty years ago. No, not the end of
all my writing! I have a lot of stories left to tell. It's the end of a major odyssey, though. I've written a complete, five novel, epic fantasy series. It feels good.
