I wrote 1,000 words today, finished The Colour of Magic, started The Slynx, figured out the next month’s bevy of writing-related tasks (sorta), watched a bunch of football and played a bunch of mobile games. Last night I was out until 3am again, so this burst of productivity was a welcome surprise.

Today also marks the end of the first official four-week ‘sprint’ of my part-time, self-imposed writing job. Way more than 20 hours went in as far as I know (I didn’t track this very reliably)—about 20,000 words came out, all of them inside of Hunting Midnight. I stalled on actually publishing anything, which is not an acceptable outcome for the next run of four weeks. I continue to let cover art be an excuse, but that’s literally an upload and ‘plonk’ process in compiling the e-book. Sure, there’s more work involved when it comes to the Createspace edition, but I’ve never done that before and don’t strictly need to do it at this point. Final edits, layouts, etc. could all happen for CHILDSEEKER (must resist urge to put the whole thing on CC… even at 3,500 words a pop that’s ~20 weeks worth of collecting feedback and 60 crits to earn it).

I’ll probably write a bigger blog on how well the 4-week process ends up working out for me, maybe at the quarter mark? Christmastime style, end of 2017 style. I like.