Well, it's now 12:20 a.m. and I've been writing the second part of Suicide High for the last 4 hours. I'm about 20 pages in right now and the timeline is going much slower than anticipated.
It's a funny thing when you start writing. Some parts of a novel that you think you want to cover in detail don't get as much coverage as you once thought they would, and other parts drag on and on (not in a bad way, there's just a lot more detail that gets added). <<SPOILER ALERT I'm thinking that this entire next book may be dedicated to Annabel's relationship with a single character. SPOILER ALERT>> We'll just have to wait and see. Sometimes I don't know these things until I start writing. Then of course, there's also the edit . . . where a lot of stuff gets changed.
When I first started writing earlier today, I didn't think I would be able to get a single thought out. I had hardcore writer's block. But now, at over 4 hours in, I didn't think I'd be able to stop writing.
I know that I won't pick up the book again for at least another 3 days, which makes it difficult to want to stop in the first place because my thoughts are so cohesive right now and when I pick it up a few days from now I know that they won't be anymore. Oh well, so is life.
If I get to spend as much time on the book as I did today the next few times that I pick it up, then it might possibly be finished by the end of March. Don't quote me on that though.
The first extended part of Sunset High should be re-released tomorrow. I'm planning on doing a marketing campaign on it and having a freebie week. So, if you're not on my mailing list, now would be a good time to get on it so that you can read the re-release for free . . . which will actually contain a revised version of the first portion that everyone has read along with what would have originally been the second book.
I wanted to flesh it out more because after I saw on The Kindle that it only converted into 22 regular book pages long, I thought that was waaay too short. I want the novelette's to be short, but only 22 pages is ridiculously short. So, I combined with what would have been the second book with the first book to make it longer. The second book was a few pages longer than the first, so once it's all converted I think it will be somewhere closer to 50 pages (or a few pages less), which is about where I want to keep the books in the series.
I originally anticipated that there would be about 13 books in the series, one for each major event. Now that I'm adding more content to each book I think the series will end up getting cut down to about 5 books.
Anyways, that's it for tonight. To bed with me now.
