Hello, all there on the Internets.
I was a bit worried about productivity this week. I felt like I was taking more notes than I was actually writing, and it turns out to be the case.
My totals:
Writing statistics for the week ending 10 May 20257
Words: 3,147
Days writing: 6 of 7.
Days revising or planning: 4 of 7 for 480 minutes.
Daily Writing Goals Met (500+ words or 30 minutes of planning/revisions): 6 of 7 days.
How to explain the situation?
As The Yank Striker’s Journey is getting ever closer to publication, I’ve begun considering what my next project will be – that is, the next one I want to get published. What I wanted to do at the start of this year and where I want to do now have changed. There are two books I have in mind – one another entry in The Yank Striker series, and the other set in the world of my first book, the journalism thriller The Holy Fool. The first book was set in 2008, but I’ve started to wonder what type of stories my main character, former newspaper columnist Sonny Turner, might be working on nowadays…
Anyway, I have barely some ideas for both of these projects – at least something of a timeline for The Yank Striker book and at least the angle and the finish, as they would say in the world of pro wrestling, for The Fool sequel. Part of my planning is to sketch out a rough outline for these books, and also make a clearer plan for the other series of books I have in mind, the pro wrestling family drama I’m calling Kayfabe Stories. An outline for this series is essential, because I’m picturing a narrative alternating back and forth between time over the course of more than 60 years. I do realize at one point, I need to get started producing fresh rough drafts. However, I can feel the words coming, even though I’ve been more busy building the frames for the stories rather than the walls and foundations, as it were. But the Kayfabe Stories series is becoming a reality since I’m already more than 50,000 words into the first book’s rough draft. Can’t back out of it now, heh heh.
That’s all I have presently. Everyone take care of yourselves, and all you writers keep writing.
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