What have I been working on?
Scrivner. Heard of it a couple of times, but never gave it a try. I got lost in my head while structuring my next book and certain details on certain character paths got jumbled. So I settle down and looked into Scrivner to organize myself. It’s working! I have to input a ton of information, but! But once I finish I will be able to easily go between all my storylines and ensure continuity isn’t ruined and not have to reread my backlog so much. That being said I’ve spent most of my time inputting my books into this program, learning it and plotting book 3 of The Fabled Elephants.
The Exiles Divided looks at adding two more members to The Flying Elephants amid a war between The Crown of Castile and The Crown of Portugal, a real conflict in the late 14th century. There will be fun historical adjustments and, of course, The Council has their hands in on this. We’ll meet Gerald and Whisper (possible name change) a short ax wielding dwarf with a big attitude and his tall and silent arbalest human friend joined with The Exiles. A group of orphans, merchants and thieves joined to take down royalty and steal money for themselves.
What are my upcoming goals?
I’ve been splitting my week up pretty well. Most days its inputting information, building character sheets and collecting photo data (images of places). I spent maybe two or three days in the past couple weeks on plotting, so I would like to swap that a bit. I’ll most likely balance myself or at least alternate days. I love the writing portion, but the necessity to set up everything correctly is all too real. So I had some big goals last time and I would still like to get book 3 done before my big move coming, but the larger novel may have to be postponed another couple of weeks before I start it. With travel coming up for my side job and regular work as well it’s a little hard to focus in on so many stories.
I will finish the 1st draft of my Sunday serial if you’re interested in a dark fantasy novel dealing with slavery and blood let me know and I can send you an early read of it compiled together.
I have started to write 2 of the 7 parts of The Exiles Divided and now that its outlined I’d like to at least get it to 6 of 7 in the next 3 weeks.
The Lords Deal series will need to wait just a bit longer to get touched again. It’s my main story, but I need to work on some plotting and these smaller stories are helping with my writing.