Veznek Rough Draft Near Completion
Holy smokes, Batman! Where did the time go? I stopped working on Veznek for awhile, then came back to it and decided to write three chapters in a day. And if you know my chapters, you know they aren’t short.
Needless to say, I’ve unexpectedly made a whole lot of progress in a short amount of time.
Veznek, the third book in the Color of Water and Sky series, is now only two chapters away from completion. That’s right: just two chapters. I’m mid-way through what is a four-chapter finale, easily the longest climax to any of the books in the series thus far. There’s action on land, in space and in the ocean. It’s a big-scale finale with lots of moving parts and *spoiler alert* lots of characters biting the bullet.
The finale draws a lot of inspiration from some of my favorite science-fiction stories including some popular blockbuster movies. It moves fast and it’s a blast to write. Just thinking about some of the scenes again gets me excited.
The current rough draft, still two chapters short, is 184 pages long and has a word-count of 99,221 words. When finished, I expect it will come out closer to about 120,000 words, making it, surprisingly, the shortest in the series so far. We shall see what the final page and word count comes out to, but as of now I predict that this shall be the shortest book of the four.
Speaking of the fourth book, as I near the end of Veznek, I begin to think more and more of my plans for the fourth and final book in the series, Hive. Herein lies the problem. The more and more I think about my plans for Hive, the more that story grows and grows. If I actually end up writing the story I currently have mapped out in my head, Hive may grow to be the longest book in the series, even surpassing Iris. We’ll see what happens there. Only time will tell if I continue to grow the story. Hopefully I’ll be able to trim some stuff down.
In other, other news, Cassidy is currently available for pre-order on Kindle! I have had a whopping ZERO pre-orders so far, so this is your chance to be the first! I’m really excited about this story. It’s a fast read and gets you caught up on the happenings of some side characters we’ve only briefly encountered in the main series so far. It also has some pretty cool cover art, if I do say so myself.
You can pre-order your copy of Cassidy right here: http://tinyurl.com/yarrq83a
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Lastly, for those of you interested in my magazine stories, I have a new article up on the Run Washington website. You can check out my newest piece here: http://tinyurl.com/ychlv4qx
That’s all for now! Expect a lot of news on both Cassidy and Veznek coming soon!
