Blog Post The Second
Wherein we discuss the glacial pace of writing the second Outrider Legion book.
One thing that I've felt as a writer is that I am definitely a morning writer. For whatever reason, I can crank out 1800 to 2000 words in a morning with ease. Whats more is that it flows somewhat naturally. Nothing feels forced, if you catch my meaning. If I try and write in the afternoon, however, it is a frustrating slog that rarely accomplishes much.
This posed no problem when I wrote the first Outrider Legion book, as I was on, ah enforced vacation (aka between jobs) at the time. I would wake up when my wife did, see her off to work, and then head down to a local coffee shop and write for three or four hours. It was a wonderful routine, and I felt that being able to write so much consistantly helped me better pace the book as I wrote, as ideas that were fresh were able to be written down soon after I had them. It was a blast to be able to have two months to just write. Aside from the whole "unemployed" bit, I was honestly living the dream. I loved every minute of it.
The second book, however, has hit a bit of a snag. Namely me being employed (doh?) while trying to write on the side. By the time I'm home and unpacked, my brain is shot. I still scribble a bit down here or there, but the volume of work has just fallen off. Am I making excuses? Probably, but it's the truth. I've tried to make up for it by devoting my weekend mornings to writing, and I'm quite successful, but the situation is that I only get solid writing done twice a week instead of five or six days.
All that said, the second book IS chugging along as fast as it can go. As of this blog post, it's at something around 66,000 words, which is a little over halfway done (they are kind of quick reads on purpose).
So long story short (too late!) I'm a lazy, slow part-time writer, please have patience with me!
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One thing that I've felt as a writer is that I am definitely a morning writer. For whatever reason, I can crank out 1800 to 2000 words in a morning with ease. Whats more is that it flows somewhat naturally. Nothing feels forced, if you catch my meaning. If I try and write in the afternoon, however, it is a frustrating slog that rarely accomplishes much.
This posed no problem when I wrote the first Outrider Legion book, as I was on, ah enforced vacation (aka between jobs) at the time. I would wake up when my wife did, see her off to work, and then head down to a local coffee shop and write for three or four hours. It was a wonderful routine, and I felt that being able to write so much consistantly helped me better pace the book as I wrote, as ideas that were fresh were able to be written down soon after I had them. It was a blast to be able to have two months to just write. Aside from the whole "unemployed" bit, I was honestly living the dream. I loved every minute of it.
The second book, however, has hit a bit of a snag. Namely me being employed (doh?) while trying to write on the side. By the time I'm home and unpacked, my brain is shot. I still scribble a bit down here or there, but the volume of work has just fallen off. Am I making excuses? Probably, but it's the truth. I've tried to make up for it by devoting my weekend mornings to writing, and I'm quite successful, but the situation is that I only get solid writing done twice a week instead of five or six days.
All that said, the second book IS chugging along as fast as it can go. As of this blog post, it's at something around 66,000 words, which is a little over halfway done (they are kind of quick reads on purpose).
So long story short (too late!) I'm a lazy, slow part-time writer, please have patience with me!
http://chrismpepper.wix.com/theoutrid...
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