Book One Cover Artwork
I have a cover for book one! An artist in Ukraine made it, and I’m pretty happy. Here is the front: And here’s the back:
I have a cover for book one! An artist in Ukraine made it, and I’m pretty happy. Here is the front: And here’s the back:
I spent the last ten days redoing chapters 25 and 26. They still need a trimming pass of edits to get the chapters under 5000 words. But I’m happy with the overall theme and flow of them. Alara gets to …
Spent quite a bit of time editing earlier chapters again. More details, world building, and character development. This added about 4k words, but was a net gain in reader experience, in my opinion. Chapters 25-31 are in rough shape, and …
I’ve enjoyed editing chapters 18-20. I’ve removed redundancy, added new bits, with more world building, emotion, and character development. I wanted to share a passage from the book. I’ll try to do this in future progress updates, too. She passed …
Here’s my updated word counts after finishing up chapter 17 edits: I started at 205K words. At this rate, I should be able to hit my 120K trimmed word count. I may even add more world building in if I …
Finished trimming chapter 14 today. Almost halfway done! The word count of my 31 chapters is now a hilarious, coincidental, 166,666 words, calculated by Scrivener. I use Scrivener to write and organize. It’s great for both, although Microsoft Word has …
I’ve got chapter names finalized for book one. Here they are! PrologueVertigoGenesisProbingFrictionStokingFervorEvocationUnveilingAftershocksRevelationBoardSymbiosisTransfigurationConfluenceFamilyMercurialMatriarchSimmeringSizzlingSearingScaldingSolaceScorchedQuandaryBakingRevelryReunionDevotionSkirmishAscensionEndowmentEpilogue
I’ve put a brief up for the cover of book one, Nightwind: Fury. Looking forward to seeing the final version 🙂
I finished editing chapter 11 today! The story is at about 175,000 words now. My goal is to strip an average of 2000 words from the remaining 20 chapters. It’s fun going back through these chapters. They are the most …
I’ve spent a lot of time the last few weeks editing, re-editing… and more editing. I started Nightwind: Fury without caring about word counts. But when I finished 31 chapters, I was at 205,000 words. Too many for a first …