Monday's Musings: 4 Months to go

How is August gone?

Right now I’m working on planning for the rest of the year.

What am I going to outline, write and edit, then eventually publish. What does the timing look like, and how am I going to get it all done. We have 4 months until 2024. That blows my mind. 

I knew that August was going to vanish in a blink. I even warned my spouse out it and now its gone. I’m still in shock. It’s not like I didn’t do a ton in the month, I did, but I still have so far I want to go this year.

On the bright side all of the heat has given me mounds of tomatoes. In the cold of winter, I’ll remember August when I have pasta, but for right now it was just gone.

So what am I looking at?

I need to write the 2nd book in my super secret series, or at least get the first part done so I can keep serializing it when the first book comes out.

For the first time ever I’m looking at a complete rewrite of a book. It would go from 3rd person into 1st, and it has some substantial changes that need to be made. Once that's done I can go back to writing the next book in this series which I am halfway done with.

I know, my heart is very upset with me. What do you mean by completely rewriting a book?! Yet, I think it will be for the best. It would move all of the writing I’m doing into 1st person which will make switching between series easier. It will also solve a huge issue in the new series about a hidden identity problem. I keep switching what name the main character is called based on is she acting as herself or the person she had created.

It will also give me a chance to flesh out some backgrounds and fit in a little more of the world. I keep seeing comments about where people want more information about the world itself and I want to give readers that.

The other big planning project is to look at my release schedule. I’ve been writing and aiming for a quarterly release schedule, since my target is to write a book or two a quarter and create a backlog. The downsides of this are becoming more apparent as I market the 3rd book in the Traveler Series. This I am still poking with a stick to see how I feel about it.

So, yeah. That’s a lot on my plate as I’m looking at things for the rest of 2023. 

This week on From Pages to Portals, I’ve interviewed Lor From The Light Must Hold by Kriss Gallom.

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