What is Fionn doing now?
FYI: I am still working on the 1st draft of DARK MOON RISING, the 4th book in the Blood Martyr series and I apologize for taking so long to come out with the 4th book. But I am writing it right now!
See! Proof! And I know the word count is stupid high right now, over 100k, and I’m only half finished with the first draft, which I guess would make the finished 1st draft 200k.
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Don’t worry. Even though DARK MOON RISING will easily be the longest Blood Martyr book, it is not going to be 200k. The 3rd book WOLVES AND BRIMSTONE was a little less than 45k (I think), definitely novella length, but DARK MOON RISING will be quite a hefty book…which is good, right? I think DMR will be about 100k, give or take a couple ten thousand words. Hard to say, really.
When I started writing DMR, I made a table, listing down the date, time, location, and word count because I wanted to keep a closer eye on how I wrote at certain times, locations, etc, etc.
As I look back on this graph, I notice that I started writing DMR on June 15, 2015.
Holy moly. That’s more than a year ago. I wrote pretty consistently until the end of July, and then I stopped until October, in which I wrote a couple thousand words. Then I shelved the project until I arrived in Chicago a few weeks ago, upon which I decided that I was sick of having DMR farting around in my WIP folder, unfinished, unloved, unwanted. I bit the proverbial bullet and picked up writing t again about 2 weeks ago.
So…I’ve basically been working on DMR for the past year, on and off, while working on other projects such as THE HANDSOME DEVIL #1 and #2 (currently workin on edits) as well as an erotic historical romance series that I might rerelease under this name, because it’s getting zero hits right now. I’ve also released Asura Night and I’m working on the 2nd book.
TL;DR I am writing. I’ve got so many projects that need to be completed that if I stop to think about it for too long, I start to get panic attacks.
Right now, I really don’t want to work on anything new. All I want to do is finish writing DMR, finish editing THD #2 and finish ASURA NIGHT #2 aka Evolution.
The worst part is, I want to do this all before 2016 ends. 2015 was a bit of a dry year for me, as far as publishing goes, and I want to make sure 2016 isn’t the same.
So…that’s all from me for right now. I hope to finish DMR by the end of this month, and release THD #2 by the middle of August, something that won’t be easy because I’ll be traveling quite a bit then. But then I’ll be going to Korea in September and probably Taiwan in October, so I really can’t let travel stop me from being productive, no matter how crappy I feel.
That said, I did splurge on a new laptop. Well, I say splurge, but what I really did was buy a $119 laptop on Groupon that boasts of a 14 hour battery life. 14 HOURS. GEEEEEZ. It’s an Acer Aspire One 14-inch Cloudbook. It’s the price of a Chromebook, but better because it is a PC and a Chromebook would basically just be an expensive paperweight in China as Google is banned there.
14 HOURS. FOR 100 BUCKS. WTH.
Of course, you can’t really do much on it. Just, oh, listening to music, editing documents, watching Netflix/movies.
Which is exactly what I do anyways. I don’t play games on laptops; I’ve got a desktop for that.
Currently, my laptop is an Asus Zenbook, a few years ago, but the battery is very short and I feel like I’m leashed by the need to be close to an power outlet, something the Cloudbook will free me from.
So…that’ll be something to look forward to. I’ll come back with a review of the product when I get it, which should be within the next few days.
Until then, au revoir and happy reading/writing!
