It’s been nearly a month since my last update (4/18/18… you can read it here) on progress for Book #7 of the Corrosive Knights series.

Today, I’m pleased to announce I’ve finished the read-through/written revisions of Draft #6 of the book and will be soon putting those revisions on the computer.  Once done, It’s off to Draft #7.

It’s taken me a little longer than I hoped to get through the read-through, though this was something that was also anticipated.  We had some traveling done (a graduation) and I’ve been left in almost sole charge of a family business so time to focus on the novel has been a little tighter (and might be a little tighter for the next few weeks) than before.

Regardless, I feel I have a very good grasp -much better than I did after finishing Draft #5- of the book than before.

Basically, the first half or so of the book is great.  It requires minimal fixing, mostly grammatical/spelling type stuff.

However, there is still work to be done in the second half of the book, some of which may require a little more writing (I suppose this is similar to when it is reported a film calls back the actors to do “reshoots”).

To be clear: The book is well on its way to being finished but there are elements in that second half that will require more work.

On the great side, I feel that after I finish up the revisions for the 1st half of the book, I can set that aside and don’t have to do full novel revisions from now on.

This will save time as I’ll be focused on shaping/revising the second half of the book exclusively and reading/revising a full novel versus one half a novel will cut down on the time required to finish up.

Before I release the book and when I’m happy with the second half of it, I’ll give it one more full read-through and see how the book feels as a whole.

As impatient as I am to get it all done, these things do take their time, but it IS moving ahead and we will get there.

Soon!