10/29/15
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10/25/15
I would classify June as a great success. I addition to the goals I accomplished I also received and returned the edits for Dragon Consultant. The Oracle's Sprite round two edits also arrived and I started working on those too. I got a lot of writing done and am in a good place to keep going strong into July.
6/28/15
6/3/15
I had a lot of trouble sticking to my goals last month. My muses were all over the place for some reason. Hopefully I'll be able to stay focused this month. There's plenty of writing to be done. Here's my June Goals:
May ended up being a pretty interesting month. I got a lot written, but not for the stories actually in my goals list. I also got to go shopping for a new car. The former was excellent, but the latter really wasn't. I know I'm going to like my new car a whole heck of a lot more than my old one, but the hassle of one car dying and having to scramble for a new one wasn't fun. Anyway, here's how I managed with my goals for May:
5/6/15
Now that I'm finished writing Dragon Dilemma the inevitable has happened. I should have known it might, considering how Dragon Detective demanded it be written before Dragon Dilemma.
To alleviate confusion before I start explaining the issue, here is the order of the series as it's currently planned:
As you can see, it's a lengthy series already and I do plan to write more than six books total. Dragon Consultant is the set up book by necessity since, as the first book, it introduces everything. After that the series diverges into two separate plot lines: finding and fighting the enemy versus a world building plot. Admittedly, a reader of the series that is unfamiliar with my various posts about the difficulties I've been having with those two plots might not notice the separation, but each book is focused on one of those lines. Unfortunately, it's not a linear progression. The plots are intertwined throughout, but one is pulled more to the fore in each book. Dragon Deception focused on the battle against the enemy, fighting to save the dragons and stop the bad guys. That plot line is supplanted in Dragon Dilemma by the world building plot. You may remember that when I finished writing Deception, the next book I worked on was Dragon Detective. I skipped Dragon Dilemma almost entirely because the battle against the enemy isn't nearly as prevalent in Dilemma. I chose to continue the fighting plot from Deception while I had momentum going and completed Dragon Detective soon after. Forcing myself to not continue with that plot and also write Dragon Soldier was difficult, but there was no way I was going to have books four and five completed while book three languished. That seemed like a really silly thing to do. I have been working on Dragon Dilemma ever since and I just completed it. I still need to go through the story for a basic edit, then I'll set aside for a month before I pick it back up for a final round of editing and formatting for submission. I'm pretty certain I'll be able to submit Dilemma to LT3 in June. The original plan when I finished Dilemma was to return to working on Dragon Soldier. I'm starting to realize that may not happen. The world building plot line from Dilemma becomes secondary in Detective and Soldier, then reasserts itself in Dragon Spy. My muses are demanding that now that Dilemma is complete I need to pick up Spy and continue the world building plot. I don't want to skip Soldier, but that may just be how it ends up working out. Is it normal to hopscotch between books in a series like this? I'm going with no. These books need to be read in order and probably should be written that way too. In June I'm going to be editing both Dilemma and Detective. I'm hoping that editing Detective will put my brain back on the fighting the enemy plot line and I'll be able to continue working on Soldier like I planned. I do have to say that I really like what I'm coming up with for Dragon Spy. I'm going to have an interesting few months of writing this series. April showers bring May flowers, which also brings along allergies. I am allergic to being outside in the Spring, so I'll be sneezing and sniffling all month long. It's awful, but at the same time I love being outside and playing in the dirt. My strawberries are coming up and pretty soon the vegetable garden will be going in. There's lots to look forward to and hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of writing done too.
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April 15, 2023 AuthorMell Eight is an author writing with NSP. For more information about Mell and her writing, please visit her website: http://melleightfiction. Tags
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