Deadlines Go Whoosh!

20
May
2019

Works in Progress: Table of Stone and Forged in Fire, week eighteen

Okay, I’m calling it.

Table of Stone will NOT be done by the deadline of by Friday. I’m giving myself another month. Which is going to be interesting, because you know what is done on Friday?

School.

Well, technically, school actually ends a week from tomorrow. But the school where J attends wanted to be done on Friday, and the board voted to end school on Friday because why have ONE half day after a day off? The County, however, said they had to have that silly last day. So the school said, Fine, we’ll have school (wink wink). So, sending J in for a half day for one day, on a day when they’re not going to penalize him for being out? Makes no sense.

Anyhow, here is how things stand.

Table of Stone
Swords of Charlemagne, Book 4

73988 / 85000 (87.04%)

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

72525 / 85000 (85.32%)

I’m looking at maybe another five chapters in Table of Stone. So I should be done well before the end of June (stop laughing).

Forged in Fire, on the other hand, is turning in to a monster. I haven’t wandered too much off outline. What I didn’t realize is just how many words it would take to get to this point of the outline! I’m working on chapter 22. Which means we might be looking at about forty chapters all together.

MONSTER book!

I’m going to keep this blog post short, because I need to get other words in. And I need to prep for my panels at Oasis, which is the weekend after next. If you’re in Maitland, come and say hi!

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13
May
2019

Works in Progress: Table of Stone and Forged in Fire, week 17

Table of Stone
Swords of Charlemagne, Book 4

66832 / 85000 (78.63%)

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

69899 / 85000 (82.23%)
Here we are. There are ten days left of school…. and Table of Stone is nowhere NEAR done. Looking at it, I’ve got maybe five and a half chapters left. And a denouement that I’ve already written, but that might need to be tweaked.  I think this might be the first time in a long time where I blow a deadline. Now, granted, it’s a personal deadline, but still. I’ve never had a book run over into summer break before.
It would be easy to say, “Well, Liz, it’s because you’re working on two books! You’ve never done that before either!” And the answer to that is, yes I have. Written in Water and Ashes and Light were written concurrently, and I brought both of them in early. Now, I was laid up with a broken toe at the time, but…
Yeah, I think we’ll say it’s all the fault of my shoulder. My output picked up dramatically once I wasn’t in pain any more Hrm… imagine that!
In other book news, Forged in Fire looks like it will be running… long. Way long. I might not have it done in time for Indie Bookfest in August long. Yeah, that long. I’m writing chapter 22 currently, and there’s still a ways to go. This one is going to be a monster — I’ll have to update that wordcount, but I think we’ll be pushing the 100K word mark. 85K isn’t going to cut it.
I’ll be heading out to Oasis in a few weeks, and I can’t wait for that! I’ll have a table in the dealers room, and I’ll be bringing out my beads — I’m finally going to be selling off the raw materials from my jewelry business, so if you want good quality beads CHEAP, come find me at Oasis!
All right. Let me get back to the writing. This book won’t finish itself.
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