ROW80: Updates, Blog Tours and Visitors

Well that time of the week has come around again.

Even I have been blown away by the consistent wordage I have managed this week. With over 1000 words a day being added to my novel, a 2300 word short story (second part) and a few general blog posts.

I did struggle with the 5am wake up this week, but that is in large part down to the fact that my daughter has been little monster this past week with sleeping. Lots of moaning and groaning which at its best saw me rise 3 times in 5 hours and at worst was 7 times in 5 hours.

The other this I have noticed with this interrupted sleep pattern I have is that I no longer dream, and do not feel rested at all in the morning. Ok, it's not strange but it struck me as interesting.

Anyway, back to the writing.

Book Two of the Highway to Hell Trilogy is now (circa) 41,000 words and progressing nicely. I do feel it is going to be a bit longer than Highway To Hell, but that isn't a bad thing. As I have said before, word count doesn't bother me as long as the story remains strong and is complete.

This being said I always write a longer novel for the first draft and cut considerably in the first round of editing. I prefer to have to cut words than to add them. Unless I see something is missing or want to re-write a chapter, but I'm sure you understand what I mean.

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I am planning on running a short and intensive blog tour the week leading up to Halloween. My aim is to hit two blogs a day leading up to a short competition on my blog on the 31st with free copies of my novel and discount vouchers as the prizes. (More concrete details to follow)

The main aim now is getting the hosting blogs agreed upon. The posts themselves are forming in my mind and are going to be quite a mix of Halloween related / themed and more generalized.

Anyway, that's enough from me this update.

Thank you for reading and Happy writing.