I’ve Finished! (Again)
As the title suggests, I have some big news. Today, at 10:50 pm, I finally completed the rough draft of Kholvaria, the second book in the Color of Water and Sky series.
I’m still trying to get over the ending. Man, what an ending! I know fans are going to like this ending just as much as the ending to Iris, if not even more. I’m really excited to see how people react to the final moments of the story.
At this time, I find myself immediately looking back to my older post from last year when I finished writing Iris. You can read about it by clicking HERE (and I recommend you do).
Looking back on my data from last year, I notice a lot of differences between that draft and this one. Most notably is the word count. My initial rough draft for Iris came in at 170,812 words at 305 pages. Kholvaria, by comparison, comes in at 137,068 words and 246 pages. That’s a HUGE difference.
I always intended for this book to be shorter, so I know I shouldn’t be surprised. It has considerably fewer chapters AND a shorter average chapter length. That being said, these numbers still do surprise me.
Obviously all of these numbers are going to change once the editing process begins. The wordcount will no doubt get smaller. I just hope I can get through the editing process smoothly. Last time, the editing process took quite awhile. With a rough draft done on November 18th and a release date that didn’t happen until September 25th, that’s a LONG period of time. I hope to get Kholvaria out in a shorter time frame than that.
The next step is to go by each chapter one by one and knock it out. I plan to follow the same editing strategy as last year. To read more about that, you can click the link HERE. Though the process was tedious, I thought it was worth it. I caught a lot of issues and rephrased a bunch of poor sentences.
The next step after editing will be cover art. That’s a long way down the road. I have a few ideas in mind right now, but obviously it’s all just abstract at this point in time.
As always, keep checking on this blog for more updates. I may be releasing a chapter sample soon.
