Progress – or the lack of it!

Sorry, it’s been a few days since I last gave you an update, but that’s really because there’s been very little progress. I’ve got new ideas for new projects niggling at my mind, so I’m trying to push on with it and get on with editing book one and writing book two, but it’s hard – especially when I’ve got coursework and homework and projects coming out of my ears at the moment. I’ve not done very much editing at all – I’ve deleted a couple of sentences and that’s it, which really isn’t good. As for writing – I’ve written half of chapter one and nearly all of chapter two (I should NEVER write two chapters concurrently – I get so distracted and forget what I’m writing in one or the other) of book two, and I’m quite excited. I’ve got plans, I know where the series is going and where it will end, and I’ve got an idea of what I’m going to do afterwards, but that won’t be for quite a while to be honest. Got a lot still to do before I get to that point!

As for life… it’s going well 🙂 I seem to be up to date and doing quite well at college, even if I don’t enjoy it much, and even though it’s freezing cold outside, it’s actually relatively warm in my bedroom. I do wish I could shift this cough and cold, but it seems to be on its way out – I actually sang this evening! – and that these symptoms I’ve been having would go away, but I’ve had a lot of them since last year so I’m not expecting any miracles, especially as it seems to be getting worse 😦

Oh well – the show must go on, and I certainly intend to!

So much for editing…

I’m already on chapter two of book two. To be honest, after this chapter is finished (and I’ve got all my coursework finished), I am going to stop myself from writing any more of this second book and actually edit book one. I’ll probably end up putting a couple more chapters in – I’ve had a couple of ideas, and realized that I can’t just edit them into an existing chapter or it’ll end up being really REALLY long chapters, so I’m going to give them a chapter of their own if it works out right.

The trouble is, I’m SO excited about book 2… but only of one aspect of it, and that’s the development of the relationship between the two characters who you focus more on in the first half of this one. Ideally I’d be equally excited about all of the plot points but… I don’t know.