Another writing update already?

I’ve got two projects completed this week already, having completed the third Zombie Era novella (tentatively titled Raising the Undead), and having FINALLY finished the rough draft for Revival of the Magi. The novella took only a couple of weeks to finish, but Revival of the Magi had sat in limbo for the better part of a year and a half because of missing cast members. It’s one of my longer stories, and the larger cast made it hard for me to remember everyone in the first pass. So I left some notes on what I thought those characters should be doing, and every time I came back to the project, the muse went, “Eh, maybe later.” (And of course sometimes the characters went “No, I’m not feeling that.”)

But at long last, I have the cast assembled, and I can call this a finished rough draft. The book’s at 101K, but after I add details here and there, it’s sure to be a little bigger. But I promise, it’s one of the few door stoppers I’ll put out this year.

Today, I have plans to do some cover work to get ready for the Wattpad beta reading of Sandy Morrison and the Pixie Prohibition, Sandy’s second book in what I hope to make an open-ended series. The events in book two are mostly self-contained, but their resolutions leave open the door to at least five books in the series, and that’s just what the muse has to start with.

Then next week I plan to start the last Zombie Era novella, which should take 2-3 weeks to finish. So for sure, this year, I’ll conclude two of my series and free my schedule to work on more Mystical World Wars books.

Writing this winter has not been easy, and has involved a lot of crashing on the couch from fatigue attacks. But despite this lack of energy, I don’t appear to have any motivation problems. I have new releases nearing completion for almost every month this year, and if I keep this pace up, by Spring I’ll be drafting stuff for the 2014 schedule.

Lots of new stuff coming! And in between releases, I’ve got some book and game reviews to write, even a possible new indie music CD to review. Going to be a fun year, y’all.