I am just getting back from a mid west trip.\u00a0 My Wife, my 3 kids and I just did a tour of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois over the last 13 days.\u00a0 The trip was long and fun and we even got a little snow in.\u00a0 Not enough to make this Californian driver worried but enough to let the kids know that there is other seasons than just sunny in the world.<\/p>\n
The snow was almost non existent on the ground but we got some sledding in and made some snowmen.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get ahead on my production schedule before I left and didn’t make any progress during the vacation.\u00a0 So the plan is to hit it hard starting today and work on getting it to the editor this month.\u00a0 Then get it back by the end of the month and finish up formatting.<\/p>\n
Finally release the book in mid-March.\u00a0 \u00a0 Then double down on writing book 2.\u00a0 I have about 15 min of writing minimum each day to work on it.\u00a0 At the point that it releases I will have finished my moonlighting projects so hopefully I can bump that up to an hour in the evenings.\u00a0 \u00a0Which would mean 1 hour for writing M-F and then 1 hour at lunch MWF which means a full day of 8 hours of writing per week.\u00a0 I can get about 150 words in conservatively per 15 min so 600 words an hour so just speculating here but 4800 words a week.\u00a0 We can round that up to 5K and that means about 2.5 months to finish first draft of book 2.\u00a0 Then a couple revision passes which will be 2 more months and then editing pass and back…so hopefully release around December if I can do it.<\/p>\n
The trick of course is if I get any more contract jobs that will eat into that time which will put me back down to 4.25 hours a week of it.\u00a0 Moving the needle but only 2.5k a week so 5 months to finish.\u00a0 Which would put it at august when first draft is done, so not horrible.\u00a0 Of course, all these numbers are made up and the points don’t matter so we shall see how it turns out in reality.\u00a0 All I can confirm for a fact is my butt in the chair writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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