July's Writing Progress

The new story has come along very nicely this month. I added about 17,000 words to it, so it now stands at about 34,000 words. (Mind you, about 1,200 words of that is the main characters taking a hot bath for the first time, so it'll be interesting to see how much of it survives the edit.)

It now has a working title, The Last Dragonrider, though just to be confusing, it's a prequel to The Accidental Dragonrider and The Reluctant Dragonrider. It's not "the third dragonrider book" that I said I was planning to write once Command Authority was out of the way, so there will eventually be at least four books in the Dragonrider series.

I don't know if there's something about the dragonriders' world that makes it easy and quick to write about, or if I'm just relieved to be working on a novel that isn't Command Authority. (I love that world and its characters, but I started it in October 2020, so it's coming up on its third anniversary. The last book I spent that long on was Death & Magic, over 10 years ago.) It might be a bit of both: The Reluctant Dragonrider was fast to write as well.

Let's see whether I can sustain the momentum next month!