I haven’t posted a book update in over a week because of three things:
I have been working on two big articles, the first of those was posted yesterday.
The real job has been annoying as fuck this past week.
There hasn’t been a lot to talk about, as I’ll explain below.
I got to a point where most of the important stuff in the book was done, as far as the story itself. So, I needed to go back and make sure that everything was coherent and there weren’t any contradictory bits in the finer details. I get a bit paranoid about that sort of stuff.
Also, as I mulled previous scenes over, I wanted to emphasize some stuff better. So, it took about a week to start back at the beginning, re-read everything again, and to edit and massage some of the more important scenes. I also omitted a subplot that was unnecessary and overloaded the already loaded book. With that, I removed a small group of characters that don’t need to be involved.
Right now, I need to write one or two more chapters before I get to the big final battle. I’m organizing the few needed scenes in my head before putting them to paper. I hope to have that worked out and have them written in a day or so.
After that, the big ass, multipart battle will be written. I have that mostly laid out in my head but need to organize those thoughts in my notebook over the next day or so. By this time next week, I should be well into the climax. I’d imagine it is going to take up roughly four lengthy, action-packed chapters.
We’re getting pretty damn close, homies.
I also think that in the next week or so, as the main story is wrapping up, I will reveal the title and cover for “Book IV” (the 7th overall).