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Night Blade: Dusk of Demise Writing Results
September 28th 2014 10:15 pm
Okay, enough with the moping of my terrifying day last week. I thought it would be better to write a post about my latest book, Night Blade: Dusk of Demise and its progress (see Volume 1 Review and Volume 2 Results).So, without further ado, here's the report for Volume 3!
As of September 17th, I finished the manuscript for Night Blade: Dusk of Demise! 80,000 words and roughly 300 pages in, and I'm beginning the (less interesting) editing process.
The good news is that I wrote Book 3 in a total of 50 days (well, 50 consecutive days over the course of roughly 6 months (April 24 - Sept 17). 80,000 words in 50 days - it's 20k more than Book 1, and just about twice as long. But keep in mind that the latter half of the book was written while I currently hold down 2 part time jobs: teaching computer courses at AB Tech and Table Games Dealer at Harrah's Cherokee. The Dealing job has been good for the pay, and the teaching job has been satisfactory for my own expansion of knowledge.
Regardless, while writing Book 3 in my spare time around a 24-32 hour (per week) job at night, then a 4-8 hour (per week) job during the day, I've been spending a lot of my free time sleeping, because I can't fit it in otherwise.
Some of those writing days only got about a few hundred words in, while other days unloaded a few thousand words. It was certainly challenging trying to finish the book, as the original script was only through about 2/3 of the content. Trying to find out where the other 1/3 of the content would come from was interesting, since I really didn't know, which makes writing all of Book 4 a large challenge, especially as I've already set up the high word goal of 80k+. I've been told that I'm taking the "J. K. Rowling approach" in making every subsequential book longer. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.
| Book | Word Goal | Word Total | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn of Discovery | 50,000 | 59,993 | +19.98% |
| Day of Reckoning | 60,000 | 82,220 | +37% |
| Dusk of Demise | 70,000 | 86,844 | +24.1% |
| Dark of the Night | 80,000 | 100,000 | +20% |
I'm hoping that Book 4 does work out well, since I have an idea about how to take the story, but don't have the pre-written script as before. My expectation is that it will take roughly 90 consecutive days of writing, probably over the span of 6 months, which should make it roughly April 2015 for its release. I wish I could get it done by November, so I could complete the series in a year and have the book signing during the celebration, but I don't think that's going to happen. Well, we'll see what happens.