{"id":23076,"date":"2026-04-20T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=23076"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:09:13","slug":"sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow, it’s been a while since I posted to this blog. I was just about to get back in the saddle, after finishing the rough human draft of Captive of the Falconstar,<\/em> but then things got a little crazy and I dropped the ball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened? Well, I got into a minor accident where I bent the family car’s door out of shape, and that took about a week and $1500ish to solve. Our 6 month-old also came down with croup (again) and an ear infection, so that wasn’t fun\u2014he’s much better now, though, fortunately. Classes ended for my wife, and now she has to grade a bazillion papers. And finally, we had taxes, which were so complicated this year that we found the limit of what Free Fillable Forms can and can’t do. So that was crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the writing end of things, I tried and failed to juggle four different projects at the same time, so that threw things off a ton. So instead of trying to keep that up, I decided to focus on Captive of the Falconstar<\/em> and all the prewriting\/outlining for The People of the Last Harvest.<\/em> Both of those projects went really well, actually, and I’m back at a place where I think I can start doing some token work on the other two WIPs as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically, the plan is to cut the daily workload for Captive<\/em> in half, and put off Last Harvest<\/em> until Captive<\/em> is done and off to the editor. At that point, I’ll turn my focus to The Soulbond and the Sling<\/em> and The Soulbond and the Lady.<\/em> Until then, I’ll just do token work on those two\u2014just the minimum amount to keep my writing skills warm enough that I can hit the ground running once Captive<\/em> is well and truly done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I just thought I could do all the revisions and polishing work for Captive of the Falconstar<\/em> in two short weeks. I’ve done it before, for some of the Sea Mage Cycle books, but those were super short and I also didn’t have nearly as much family stuff going on at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, underestimating the workload was probably what led to crashing out. But I’ve got a much better handle on it now, and I think I can finish Captive<\/em> before the end of the month, even while doing token work on the other WIPs. And I also need to catch up on some publishing things, like writing and sending out another author newsletter, but that shouldn’t be too difficult. Just an hour a day should catch up with that in about a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a side note, I am SUPER excited to work on The People of the Last Harvest.<\/em> I’ve got all the Sudowrite fields filled out (except the outline, which won’t take long), so now all I have to do is go through and write the scene prompts to generate each chapter. Once I’ve got a rough AI draft, I plan to run it through a bunch of the Author Media Patrol Toolbox<\/a> tools, like the Zeitgeist Vibe Checker<\/a>, the Not A Developmental Editor<\/a>, and the Roast Engine<\/a> to figure out which changes to make. With that, I’ll go through and make the necessary changes to generate a better AI draft, and go from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, I should probably mention that I’m planning to attend the 2027 Novel Marketing Conference<\/a> in Austin this coming January. Just bought the tickets for that. And of course, I’ll be at Writers Cantina<\/a> in July, as a panelist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kids are screaming, so I’d better go check on that and make sure my wife isn’t too overwhelmed. Take care! I’ll start posting regularly again next week, probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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