Cleanliness is Next to Productiveness

Since I've finished the planning I've been working on my first draft (typed) and I've been flying through it finishing five chapters already. Having hand written these chapters already has made this step extremely easy since I don't have to think too much, all I have to do is change things that I realize don't work so well the second time around.

I cleaned my house today, vacuumed the carpet and such and I've noticed that I feel more relaxed with out all the dirt to worry about. I'm sure that it's helping me because I've been writing for the past four hours and I haven't felt the urge to take a break yet. Hurray for clean houses!!!

Progress:

First Draft Typed: 45% - Almost half way!

Planning Is Now Complete

I finished the planning for the first book today and it feels good to have it done. After looking at my last post it looks like I miscaculated how much I had left to plan since that 2% seemed to take a week to finish. Which is why it's probably a good thing I'm not giving a total percentage of the book. Anyways, I can now focus on the first drafts now (both handwritten and typed). Hopefully they will go by quickly now that I know what I have to write and now that I have my computer back. It's a little hard to type with out a keyboard, it's also unproductive.

Well I guess that's about all the status updates I have for now. Hopefully the next post wont be so far off.

Planning Almost Finished

I worked a lot on planning yesterday and go quite a bit finished with it. Most of the ending has been completed and I probably would have finished it all, but the sound of fireworks got distracting and I decided to go watch them.

Given how much I've done I'd say I'm about 97% done with 1% more until I'll be finished with the planning entirely. The other 2% will be dividing that everything into chapters and tweaking it to add little things here and there.

It's nice to know that I pretty much know what's going to happen with my book all the way to the end. I think when this step is done the rest of my story will fall into place quickly (although, I could be wrong).

My Current Progress

As you know I'm working on the first book of a six book series. I thought that before I get into telling you about my day to day progress it'd be a good idea to tell you how much I've done so far. I wont give an overall percentage because it's hard to gauge how many drafts I'll be making. But there shouldn't be any harm in giving a draft by draft percentage.

OK Here we go!!!

Title - A confusing Mess that will haunt me until I choose one.
Percentage: 50% (I know, sad)

Planning - This is where I think I shine. For the most part planning comes easily to me.
Percentage: 92% (Almost there!)

First Draft Hand Written - I'm not doing to bad in this department. It takes a while and my wrists start to ache after a while, but I know it'll get better when I type it up.
Percentage: 67% (Yay! over half way!)

First Draft Typed - Sadly not terribly far on this step. My computer has been out of commission for a while now and I have not gotten it back form the shop, but I expect to have have it by next week sometime.
Percentage: 32% (Not great, but almost a third! That's good! Right?)

Second Draft Typed - I do my second draft after my editor has had a chance to read the first draft over and help me with the usual editor type stuff. Like "this makes no sense" or "you're missing this". Very helpful stuff.
Percentage: 15% (I know, it's low, but it's started)

So that's about all for now. It looks a lot more complete when I see it set up like this. Hurray. Well now that I've done this I can simply post regular updates now. Hurray!

Info On My Current Novel

I'm currently working on a series that I predict will take approximately six volumes to tell. I am in the middle of writing the first book and haven't decided on a title for the series yet, but I have a few in mind.

The story is basically about saving a world (and in turn the entire universe) from a cold-hearted woman called the Onyx Witch who has infiltrated the Royal Family of a world called Prizmara. In an attempt to stop the Onyx Witch a girl named Kree travels to earth to find a boy named Lon whom she believes is "he who is true of heart". Together the two must travel around Prizmara looking for a way to stop the Onyx Witch.

I know it may not seem like the most original concept, but I feel a solid base is the best place for creativity to spring from.

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