Book 2 Finished!
In other news, I finished up my first draft of Book 2 in my WIP urban fantasy thriller trilogy! It topped out at around 80K words, which was my planned book length for it.
I'm very pleased how this one turned out, really think it's a solid middle book of the trilogy. Great action sequences, fun character interactions and dialogue. A joy to write!
Also, Book 2 broke my own personal speed record -- I cranked this one out in a week! Never in my life have I written something so quickly (although, ironically, I wrote Book 1 in two weeks).
This has been a kind of revelation for me, that it's possible, at least with these books, for me to write that quickly.
Another part of it is that I still don't have a job, so, when I'm not job-hunting, I'm writing -- my logic being the gift of time that comes with being unemployed isn't something I should squander as a writer. Ergo, I've been writing. A LOT.
It lets me glimpse what I could be capable of if I were able to write full-time. If nothing else, I have that as a consolation prize for still being unemployed.
I'm going to let my brain rest a bit before I write Book 3 in the trilogy, but I'll be curious how quickly this one comes together for me. If I'm able to turn out books this quickly, I may dive into some others and see if it's just a fluke tied to this series of books, or whether I can apply it to some of the other writing projects I have lined up. If I could bank a number of novels this way, that might be useful down the road.
I'm very pleased how this one turned out, really think it's a solid middle book of the trilogy. Great action sequences, fun character interactions and dialogue. A joy to write!
Also, Book 2 broke my own personal speed record -- I cranked this one out in a week! Never in my life have I written something so quickly (although, ironically, I wrote Book 1 in two weeks).
This has been a kind of revelation for me, that it's possible, at least with these books, for me to write that quickly.
Another part of it is that I still don't have a job, so, when I'm not job-hunting, I'm writing -- my logic being the gift of time that comes with being unemployed isn't something I should squander as a writer. Ergo, I've been writing. A LOT.
It lets me glimpse what I could be capable of if I were able to write full-time. If nothing else, I have that as a consolation prize for still being unemployed.
I'm going to let my brain rest a bit before I write Book 3 in the trilogy, but I'll be curious how quickly this one comes together for me. If I'm able to turn out books this quickly, I may dive into some others and see if it's just a fluke tied to this series of books, or whether I can apply it to some of the other writing projects I have lined up. If I could bank a number of novels this way, that might be useful down the road.
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