This updates a little later in the month that I usually like, but we're on the final day of August and I wanted to keep you all in the loop on the things that are happening right now. Are we all ready for this update? Oh good! Let's dig in... Since my last update...I gave a brief update on the progress of Changeling at the beginning of August, but the last time I did a proper update was the middle of July.
I was neck deep in Camp Nanowrimo, and the UK was in fighting through a record breaking heatwave. I'm pleased to say I survived the weather (just) and that Changeling's first draft was completed! I got a huge majority of the words down in July, a nice 72k, and finished up the final five or six chapters during the first 11 days of August. Since then I've been alternating between Changeling Edits, and the first few chapters of it's sequel, Darkling...
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*Crawls into the room, panting...* *Staggers over to the desk...* *Slams down a stack of papers...* Fucking did it! The manuscript for Changeling, Book One of the Fey Touched Trilogy, is complete at 108,623 words.
I started working on Changeling in July of 2021. I wrote up to chapter 16, which was about 30,000 words and then stalled. So this June I went back to that first 16 chapters, and I rewrote what I'd already done from scratch, and then launched straight into Camp Nanowrimo in July. But I've been tracking my numbers since July 2021 and these are my final statistics...
Now I just have to edit the monster. I'll be taking a day off today, and then continuing on with the sequel, Darkling, tomorrow. And to celebrate, there's a tiny, final, sneak peek from the last chapter of Changeling, beneath the read more... |
Arista Holmes
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