I’m seeing the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.
Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not yet close to finishing book #7 in the Corrosive Knights series. In fact, there are still several months of work to be done and my hope is that it will be completed and released by later this year or, if worse comes to worse, the beginnings of next year.
No, the light at the end of the tunnel I’m referring to is the end of summer.
How I long for it to finally end!
I love my daughters but, both being in college means working on the places they live in. The last week we headed out to where my younger daughter is going to College and went in two cars filled to the brim with her stuff (not to brag, but when I was a young ‘un, all I needed fit into a suitcase!).
We unloaded the material, had a one day mini-vacation, then spent a full wasted day waiting for an IKEA delivery that never showed up. The next day, our last in those northern lands, forced us to rent a van and haul hundreds of pounds worth of to-be-put-together furniture from the warehouse that was supposed to deliver it to us (they screwed up, plain and simply, and couldn’t deliver on our last day there), then take said furniture up a flight of stairs (no elevator at my daughter’s apartment), and put it all together in time to then drive the five hours back home where I needed to be because by the next morning at the bright and early hour of 6 A.M. I needed to take my wife in for a medical exam. To those worried, don’t be… it was a routine exam and everything was perfect.
The past week is an encapsulation of the summer in general, where I feel I’ve made progress on my writing but am seemingly always being pushed into other endeavors.
As someone who prides himself on writing a certain amount each day, its frustrating as hell but, on the positive side, its sometimes good to “step back” from what you’re working on, give your brain a chance to not think about what you’ve been writing, to then return to it later and find yourself far more “fresh” and energized.
I’m hoping that’ll be the case.
School starts for them both in the next couple of weeks and then, until Thanksgiving and unless something else happens, it’ll be just me and the computer.
There’s not a whole heck of a lot more writing to be done before I can start revising the book in earnest and I’m just dying to get there. Corrosive Knights Book #7 is the conclusion to the Corrosive Knights Saga and I want to make sure I’ll give everyone out there their money’s worth.
And as I said before, just because the story ends there doesn’t mean there won’t be at least one more book set in that universe. Indeed, I’ve already got Book #8 of the series written (at least a full first draft) and it will serve as an “epilogue” to the series and, best of all, because I’ve already written such a fully formed first draft, it will be out very soon after #7 is released.
That much I guarantee you!