Weekly Update: 5.8.17

So, once again: I’ve
fallen behind on keeping up with my website. That does it! Starting
now, I am going to offer weekly updates, even if the weekly update
isn’t of much substance. I suppose the reason I’ve found it hard to
provide any kind of update is because I’ve been so disgustingly busy
with grad school that I’ve had next to no time to work on The
Magic Hound. Thankfully, that is
no longer the case – I am over halfway finished with revisions and
am pretty much working on the novel with every scrap of spare time I
can scrounge from my schedule. Hopefully, by the end of May, I will
be officially finished with the big revisions to the story and will
be able to send it back out to my beta readers, as this version will
be the one that I will be sending to literary agents (aside from
syntactical changes and the addition of little details here and
there).

In
addition to these weekly updates, I hope to also start posting
regularly on my literary interests, the craft of writing, the art of
the story, etc. — you know, all those things that are fun to nerd
out on. Is that sentence even grammatically correct? Is “nerd out
on” a technically acceptable phrase?

I
have no idea.

I
guess this ^ serves as more of an “Introduction to Regular Updates”
rather than an actual update, so here’s the actual, real
life update for this week – 5.8.17:

The
better part of revisions are finished for The Magic Hound!
I’m still astounded at how easily I’ve been able to write this book;
it’s been a virtually painless process. The ideas for the story have
been cooking in my brain for forever, of course, so maybe that’s why
it’s been much more effortless than any other attempts of mine in the
recent past. Regardless, the entire novel, now clocking in at over
100,000 words, will be finished in less than a year: I started on my
26th
birthday last year. I only hope that my other novels end up being as
easy to write. Maybe I have to let all my ideas simmer for ten years
before putting them down on paper.

Nah,
I’m too impatient for that.

Once
revisions are done, I think I will take a short break – short,
mind you – before starting on the sequel to The Magic
Hound, tentatively named
Billowbleak at the
moment. I’m still debating whether or not this series is gonna be a
duology or a trilogy. I think I’ll know once I start heavily working
on the sequel whether or not the rest of the story can be completed
in only one more book. Whatever the case, as tempted as I am to work
on some of my other ideas, I’m determined to finish this series
before I move onto anything else. I’m not Brandon Sanderson: I don’t
have the kind of mind that work on 80 different stories at once
without at least 79 of said stories being of dubious quality.

Okay,
cool! That’s all.