Despite being back to busy-ness, I was able to keep up some momentum on the book, though that will get harder over the summer with the million interruptions to my schedule. But I got about 5 more scenes written this week.
Historical fantasy-thriller
I had a great week–took 4 solid days to get my teeth back into my historical fantasy-thiller, Shadow Spy. Was super-pleased to see my earlier scratchings are way better than I remember, and I now have a solid first half of the book (50k). I still have to go through the other 25k I’ve already written, but the second half is not only incomplete, it’ll need some re-thinking. Still, I’m far ahead of where I expected to be at this point. Yay!
Finishing Research Review
Very close to finishing my review of the research I did for the WWII novel, in anticipation of my writers retreat next week for re-plotting the book. Getting some cool twist ideas!
Reviewing research
A good writing week. I booked a retreat for myself for early July to re-plot the standalone fantasy thriller I got the grant for, and spent this week reviewing material I researched in 2018 for it. It’s really good to get it all in my head again for a plotting push. I already have lots of words written, but I won’t be using all of them: I was pantsing and quilting while doing my research, but now I have to put it together. I also wrote the blurb, and revised the prologue and first chapter for submission to a critique group in August, and booked the whole novel for critique in October. So–deadlines!
Novel revisions finished!
Finished the revision to my novel and submitted it to beta readers. A good week!