Hello there!

At the time of this writing, it's been nearly a full 11 months since the release of my flagship novel - Trials of the Serpent God. Since then, I've been busy writing the sequel in a fevered rampage that I often considered to be haphazard and, sometimes, even detrimental to my health (I kid). Now that I'm on the precipice of the sequel's launch, I'm looking back to the writing process that brought me here.

Consider this: I had actually completed the first rough draft of the TotSG sequel, Attrition, in late January of this year. All things considered, that's barely ~8 months of writing. I'm sure someone would hear that and ask, "How confident are you in the quality of the content?", and that's a valid point. But here's the thing: I think I'm more confident in the sequel than I was with the original! 8 months may be a short time to churn out a novel with 60k words, but those months were some of the most focused content creation I've ever done.

And how did I manage to delegate the time needed to write so much in so little time? I haven't a clue. I did my best to plan, of course, but you know what they say about the best laid plans. When I started, I budgeted out a timeframe and planned on writing 3 pages a day. While that might not seem like a lot, you miss a couple days and you're quickly behind by a considerable margin. There were spans of a week or more where I didn't so much as touch the draft, yet others I would find myself in such an inspired state I would churn out dozens of pages over the course of a few days. Inspiration is a hell of a thing, I'll tell you that much.

Expedited Writing, as I like to call it, worked for me in this odd occasion. Fits of inspiration did wonders for retaking lost days, but I count myself lucky to have gotten such boons from time to time. Without those bouts of creative fervor, I'm sure the novel would have taken the full year that I had planned originally. If you're considering churning out a piece of literature in a timeframe beneath a year, especially one in the novel category, be mindful of the peculiarities that can interrupt a foundational plan for progress.

Tome of Pirudus, Book 2 - Attrition - comes out in the next few days! Keep your eyes peeled here on Goodreads, as well as Amazon, for its release. I'm excited!