Mechanics

Presently I'm reading through the manuscript and making notes of each scene, so I have a running synopsis. (as opposed to a sitting one) ;p
It also helps to pull the whole story together in my head , so I can clean up any inconsistencies that happened while writing it. And set up the details for the rest of the story.
This part is easy as far as thinking goes, but hard on me physically, because of all the writing. I spent about 8 hours yesterday working on it, just didn't want to stop! But I got very tired, and feeling a bit burned out, so I had to stop to do something else.
Progress is going right along.

Book splitting. :)

I sat and looked at this manuscript and felt overwhelmed. Then I thought, why not go ahead and publish book 1 separately instead of trying to publish both book 1 and 2 in one published tome? I realize book one does have a beginning, a middle and an end to the degree that it can stand alone as one published piece. I had initially thought that otherwise book 2 would need to have a synopsis of book one, and I realize it doesn't really need it.
You know, I'm not really a writer, per se. At least it is not something I want to do professionally. I just want to tell some stories, and hope people are willing to read them. I would like to consider myself a Latarikhin, a storyteller. Buuut, I think I'm more of a Vakhar Latarin, a seeker of words. Ha. Haa! (Nobody is going to get that except me, sigh...)

Oh yes, word count for the rough draft (2 books) is 103,658. :)

Rough draft!

Finally worked out the story plot, got the rough draft completed, and also have an ending for this book. Some resolutions, even if the main problem is not yet resolved, that is because it is not the end of the story. It's too big to put into one book, so it will go into two, as far as I can see it, now. So, I had to have a kind of resolution just to end this particular book, and then go on to the next.
I'm tired of typing.. so I'll wrap up this post for now.

Catch-up

Went into hiatus for a while, because my son not only got baptized and graduated high school, he also enlisted in the Army and is now off at Basic Training. I knew it was something he wanted to do, but it was rather sudden, and the reality hit me pretty hard. Then he goes to Airborne school, after that. Not sure when I'll see him again. And of course there's that whole thing around him going overseas into combat, because that's where he wants to be. So, it took some adjustment to not having him at home any more.
Which is why I was in a state of transition and couldn't really focus on writing.
I'm back on it again, though, rewriting the end of the plot, and hopefully soon will have the story completed in its entirety. That day will be a happy one, let me tell you. It's taking me so long just to figure out what and how I was going to tell it. So much else I wanted to get figured out as well, so that once it's written, there won't be any going back, really. Characters will be cast in stone, and I won't be able to make them into something else, after that.

It's going well. And yes, I'm proud to be the parent of a soldier. Come what may, he is doing what he wanted to do with his life.