{"id":23260,"date":"2026-06-11T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=23260"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:11:04","slug":"plugging-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/plugging-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging along"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just plugging along with my current WIP, The Unknown Sea.<\/em> As of right now, I’m 28% done with the final polished draft, 32% done with the revised human draft, 46% done with the rough human draft, and 73% done with the final AI draft (the rough AI draft is already complete). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m cycling through all of these drafts at the same time, which is why each one is at a different stage. It’s an experiment to see if that’s a better way to write, as opposed to working on the one draft until it’s completely done, then reworking the whole book until the next draft is done, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The important number is the 28% of the final polished draft, which marks the end of the writing stage. Once that’s done, I’ll send it off to my editor, accept\/reject his edits, and then put it in the publishing queue. The preorder is already up at most ebookstores, but I still have to upload the final version by December, which shouldn’t be a problem as I expect to have a finished book by August or September at the latest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that’s what I’ve been up to. My wife’s birthday\/anniversary is coming up, too\u2014we were married on her birthday, so I’d better not forget it! But since both days are the same day, I don’t think I ever will. Then again, I’ve become a lot more forgetful the older I become. Half the toys our kids own, I have no idea where they came from or how they got here. Is that normal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, that’s what I’ve been up to. Back to writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just plugging along with my current WIP, The Unknown Sea. As of right now, I’m 28% done with the final polished draft, 32% done with the revised human draft, 46% done with the rough human draft, and 73% done with the final AI draft (the rough AI draft is already complete). I’m cycling through all… Continue reading Plugging along<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1806,1829],"tags":[1679,133,925],"class_list":["post-23260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sea-mage-cycle","category-the-unknown-sea","tag-ai-assisted-writing","tag-family","tag-news-and-updates","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-63a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23395,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260\/revisions\/23395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}