meiloslyther

Your heart’s not broken, it’s just growing

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 18 complete
Where I am: Lesson 18 complete
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I think for future novels, I should give myself more time for this lesson. I’m at 333 pages, and dividing that over three days is… a lot. Didn’t think that one through.

On the plus side, I love how this has turned out. May still need to do some tweaks on transitions between scenes, but otherwise, I’m not seeing much more I’ll need to do here before type-in. I’ll still go through the next two lessons anyway, just to be thorough. This is only my third revision, after all. But I can definitely say that going through the revision process has improved my first draft writing significantly.

Also, I’ve been running Amazon ads and some promotions to kind of test why I’m not getting sales. And uh… I’m going to redo the cover for TAP. It also gives me the chance to label it as Book 1 (not that I couldn’t just slap that on the current one, but yanno) and make it jive with the cover for 2. Which I have yet to determine a title for. Or even create. Working on it.

wicked guitar solo here

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 17 complete
Where I am: Lesson 17 complete
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

The rough cut is doooooooone!

Now I get to read the thing in the right order. And do some fine tweaking. And then? The type-in.

We’re getting close, folks.

It’s hard enough being alone with myself

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 66/73 scenes in
Where I am: Lesson 17, 68/73 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

So close! I’m super happy with where this is at. It really feels like it’s all coming together. There’s still quite a lot to do before it’s ready to publish, but we’re definitely on the downhill slide.

In other news, I’m going to try out some promotion strategies for TAP. So here’s to hoping there’s a few more of you reading these in the near future.

Like I don’t mind if you ruin my life

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 57/73 scenes in
Where I am: Lesson 17, 59/73 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

Getting there. This week I did the last new scenes in my outline, and the rest of them are all on green cards (which is my code for minimal revision), so this should be cake.

I’ve also been looking into doing some marketing. Nothing crazy, I don’t have the funds for that, but… Well, to be honest, I haven’t sold any copies of TAP in over a year. So, ahead of releasing book 2, I figure it might do some good to try to promote the first one a little. We’ll see what happens.

Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 48/73 scenes in
Where I am: Lesson 17, 48/73 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

Now that I’m going through these scenes in the order I decided works best, they’re falling together WAY better than I thought they would. It’s almost like I planned it that way.

I’m getting my furniture and the last of my stuff from Chris’ tomorrow. It still doesn’t feel real. I keep going back and forth between “I’m better off” and “Maybe after some time apart, things could be different.” Why is anything less than a catastrophic explosion so much more painful?

There’s actually a few scenes I’ve worked on the last few weeks that hit harder now, and just… yeah.