Artifice of Power Update # 12

My draft is past the half way mark! I made my 7k this week as well, which was great, especially since I had a couple more difficult nights. I’m definitely feeling like I’m past the hardest hurdle of the draft and moving at a more steady pace now, focusing on moving the arcs I’ve set up toward their interconnections and resolutions. As much as anything gets resolved in book two of a series that looks like it’s going to be between five and seven books long. But as we all know, some plotlines have to get resolved in here and build out into new arcs for the next book, or this one just feels unsatisfying. Notable updates from this week:

The current word count of the book is 87,475, which is probably a bit longer than I intend. But we’ll have to get to editing to find out, since in the end, the book will be as long as it needs to be for the story it needs to tell. The exciting thing is that amounts to 51.5% of the expected word count. Also, I am definitely within a chapter or two of the next major event, which means my pacing is on track so far.Niamsha bit the bullet and committed to a line action moving forward, which will hopefully make her less of a pain to write. I actually had fun with her chapter this time!Arkaen got himself into some trouble and Kilasha isn’t there to pull him out of it. I’m pretty excited to see where this goes nextSentar politics is definitely getting away from Sayli, though it’s not entirely her fault. Her lower lords are… a bit of a mess.The Flameguard got themselves involved in this mess, too, which is going to throw some new tones on everything