Ups And Downs

So, I’d been feeling pretty great lately, but then today my mood took a dive. I think that it was because I couldn’t sleep very well and it kind of ruined my day. I woke up at around 3 am and couldn’t go back to sleep. Just been feeling really off since then, but oh well, gotta keep going.

Work on the outline for SoulShattered 2 is going well. I’m adding more and more things, and they are all cool things. Cooler than I had initially imagined they would be. I think this has been the volume that I’ve been most excited about. SoulShattered 1 was kinda written in a frenzied trance, trying to put together the idea I’d had on my head for years. SoulShattered 0 was written in an angry, obsessive frenzy, and was mainly me trying to justify all the nonsense that I’d pulled on SoulShattered 1 (which was a lot). But SoulShattered 2 feels more exciting. Overall “cooler” in that I’m putting together a lot of plot threads that I’ve been working on for the past two books and that will start to grow into fruition and becoming an intriguing, complex story.

The only thing that is scaring me a bit is that I had originally envisioned the story as a 4 book thing, but now I’m adding so many things that it might end up being a 5 book series… Which would be a problem because I already have the covers ready for different amount of books and argh, it’s so annoying, but I’ll figure out what to do about it once I’ve finished more of the books and I start publishing them.

The rewrite of SoulShattered 1 is going well. Nothing exciting, just a constant 2 scenes per day, which is fine by me. I was about to finish another yesterday, but it was late, and I realized that the scene I was working on would need a lot of rewriting to work out. In fact, I’m cutting out a lot of stuff. Way more than I thought I would be. I might end up cutting about 20k. Which is fine by me, because less work is always good but damn, it’s gonna feel weird having a 50k book. Although I shouldn’t claim victory. There are still about 50 scenes that I have to get through, so we’ll see how long this ends up being. I just want to be done fast because I hate this feeling of wasting time that I keep getting for the rewrite.

As for progress on Blood Song… We have no progress on Blood Song. And I think that I’m gonna have to pull the same trick that I did for finishing Falling Stars and gonna do the first pass edit on what I have and pray that I get some inspiration to get through the climax of the story.

It’s always the damn climax stumping me.

Also my head keeps hurting, it’s so annoying. And I couldn’t really stomach to eat much. I think the night of not sleeping well got along with my weird flu to beat me up. I’m gonna take some theraflu tonight because I just can’t stand to have another sleepless night when I have so much to do.

I have a few rants that I want to write, but they’ll have to wait. Novel writing comes first.