NaNoWriMo Update #3 - It’s DONE!

Three weeks in…and Land of the Elements is done!

Sometimes you just get on a roll, and that’s exactly what happened with LotE this week. I sat down on Tuesday to edit a couple of chapters and ended up cranking out twice as many as I’d planned. As the week went on and my progress crossed over 70%, I got excited. I decided to buckle down and finish up the draft before the holiday, and now Land of the Elements is complete: 93,129 words! 

The next step is simple: copy edits! Now that this draft is done, I want another pair of eyes to look it over for grammatical errors. I’ve certainly improved my technical writing skills since I wrote and published The Last Wizard almost three years ago, but I’ve read and edited Land of the Elements so many times that I am certain I’ve made plenty of mistakes. If I’m going to shop this book around to literary agents in 2023, I want it to be the best it can be! 

With my focus squarely on finishing the LotE draft this week, I hardly had any time to add to One Time. That’s not to say my word count was zero. I wrote a very simple 200-word story, and it was actually really fun to write! I have to give my friend Phil credit on the concept for this one. It’s simple, it’s efficient, and (in my opinion) kind of funny! 

As Thanksgiving and our big Bards Thanksgiving Eve show in Annapolis approaches, I don’t know how much time I’ll have to write this coming week. I’m hoping to break 20,000 words written for One Time before the calendar hits December, which the next story I have drafted should achieve.

(Also…the new Pokemon game rules, and that will be a significant time sink as well…good thing Brandon Sanderson hasn’t also recently released an explosive conclusion to a long standing series…crap.)

Enjoy the turkey! 

JB6