Tackling the monster!

Picking up the Madness and Blood manuscript again has been a very intriguing process. I last worked solidly on it in 2012 and I’ve been really afraid of looking at the potential mess I’ve promised to turn into a book by this spring.

I’m committed to the process, though. After letting my fans and readers (I know there’s a couple out there) linger, wondering what the heck the role the little caged girl would play in the new novel, I straightened my spine and got to it.

I was amazed that I had over 53,000 words already written and the rest plotted out. Madness and Blood is a bit more complex than Thunder and Blood was, but I’m actually proud of what the first draft looks like. I only have seven chapters left to write.

I’ve set my goal to finish writing by the end of the first week in February, and I should be able to accomplish that easily. I can write one chapter a day with no problem (she says, inwardly thinking of the mountain of words to make up those chapters). I’ll have twelve days to write seven chapters.

Current progress:

25/32 Chapters complete

53,962 words/70,000 approx.

Let’s do this! Tomorrow I’ll toss a teaser scene on here for you to whet your M&B appetite on.