Weekly writing progress:
Two major things:
Everyone signed up (or signing up) to my email list should have a copy of The Princess sent to them today at 3pm CST. (Yay!)
I signed up for the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO) contest today! It's a 24hr sign up period, after which 300 novels are randomly selected to take part. For self pub fantasy, it's a pretty big deal to make it into the finals of this competition, but I'm just hoping I make it through the random lottery.
The only other news I have on the writing front is that I'm doing edits on book 3. I have a bit of drafting I'm doing because I'm adding 2 chapters and doing a full rewrite of another. After that, I'll be going methodically through the book several times to make sure everything is consistent before I get into sentence level editing. My first round betas are chomping at the bit to get their hands on this, so I'm hopeful I can have it all done in a couple months here.
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No other news on the writing front!
What I've been up to:
TV
We continue to watch Bad Batch on disney plus, and it continues to be amazing. We've got about four more episodes and I'm excited!
I'm still watching Hell's Paradise. Not much more to report on it that I haven't already said.
With the weather being so nice, I haven't watched much else in the last week. We've been taking the dogs on extra walkies instead. 🐕
Books
Welp, I finished The Fires of Heaven. Easily my favorite Wheel of Time book so far, and the climax was super cool with a lot of bombastic set pieces. The characters all landed in very interesting places in their development, and I'm looking forward to what's going to happen in the next book. Speaking of...
The Lord of Chaos is the next book (6) in the series, and I've already made a bit of headway in it. This book is an absolute doorstopper at 395k words, and the prologue alone is 30k. I'm 56k into the novel which would be a little over the halfway point for most novels. After this one, I'm going to be taking a little break from the series to cleanse my palate. There are some standalone books I want to read before I dive back into what is affectionately referred to as "The Slog" of the series which, depending on who you ask, starts at book 7 or 8 and goes until 10. Luckily, the word counts for those books are about 30% less, but I'm still not exactly looking forward to it. Regardless, I WILL do it, because I'll be damned if I'm going to quit now.
Games
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth - still good. It's so long. I had no idea it would be this long. Some day I'll play another game again. Someday I'll be released from this extremely fun prison punctuated by moments of horrible frustration due to poorly designed mini-games.
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