I still have a bit of planning to finish, but I already have more than 50 scenes laid out. Today I wanted to get back to my writing, so I just did most of the first scene just to get warmed up. This book will be a deep first-person point of view from Commander Evan’s perspective. Nathanael came out so good that I’m going to stick to that technique for the last two books. For the final book, of course, I’ll be using Captain Alastor as the first-person point of view.
Book 6, titled “Hopeless,” is going to start off bad, then get worse. I can’t think of a better person than the XO, with his rough attitude to be the lead person in the story. I laid out my writing schedule for books 6 and 7. If things go to plan, I should be done with the rough draft for book 6 by July, which means I could be publishing it at the end of the second week of July (or earlier if things progress faster). I set book 7 to start July 15th (a Monday), which means I’ll be ready to publish around mid-September. I’m shooting for 100,000 words for each book, but book 7 might be bigger. It all depends on the final battle. If it grows too big (probably not), then I’ll break it into a book 8. That might be a logistical mess, though, because I’d have to rename the darn book to make sure that the last book is named “Final Match.”
Finishing the series in September leaves me with enough months to write another novel. I have a few in mind, but I think I have one that I’ve settled on. It’ll be a stand-alone, with the possibility to become a Chronicle. I was planning to do a short story (around 10k-20k long) that fit in the MacKenzie Steele series called Cargo Pirates. I might just back burner that story since there’s no interest in the MacKenzie Steele series at this time. I was listed in the “Books in Progress” section of this website, but I took it down for now.
Ah, so many books I want to write. So little time…
Don’t forget that Nathanael is out. I finished formatting the paperback and ordered an author copy for myself to inspect. My formatting is down to a mechanical process (now that I have it perfected). The covers were the trickiest part to get right. I’ve got that down. It takes a lot of effort to get everything to line up right, but it’s worth it.