Author: Grey Lupine

It’s August third, and the weekend, which means I need to write a new post on where I am in my writing.

This week wasn’t a good week. I had a scare which I thought might be a kidney stone. I spent two trips in the hospital emergency rooms until a doctor answered what was happening. Turns out my massage on Tuesday caused muscle spasms. So, I’ve been dealing with the pain since Wednesday.

Cleo & Petra’s second short story has been put through one round of edits. The editor can’t look at this story again until the seventh of August. I also sent the editor the finished story for The Event, but it won’t be looked at until September.

Heather’s and Sasha’s book is moving along. I only did 4,300 words this week because of the health problems. Still, this story is at 19,000 words of the 50,000 to 60,000 I’d like it to have.

I plan on Monday to returning to doing my 1k and 500 word counts. I’m going to start book two of Elly of Ellyville as the new 500 words a day story.

The last bit of news I have is I’ve uploaded the revised covers or the new covers to Pinterest and Facebook. I did this on my web page a while ago.

All right, this is a long post, so I’m done. I’ll have more to say next week!

Weekend means another writing status update.

I added about 5,200 words to Heather’s and Sasha’s story for Dyalessia Friends. This story is about 14,700 words done out of the 50k to 60k I’d like it to have. It’s moving along, so I’m happy.

Cleo and Petra’s second short story is slotted for the first round of edits on July 31st. I hope to have it returned to me by the end of the week. If it was like the first short story, I might have to make three passes to correct what the editor thinks I should fix.

All right. This is everything for this week.

Been a busy weekend, so didn’t get a chance to write my writing status until now.

I hit my 5k words written for the week in Heather’s and Sasha’s book in Dyalessia Friends. So, this story is about 10k words into the 50k I’d like it to have.

Cleo & Petra’s second short story is in the hands of the editor. I’ve self-edited the prequel novel and fixed the errors the reader noticed. When the editor gets a slot open, I plan on sending this story.

All right, this is all I have to say for this week.

I’m pleased to announce Cleo & Petra’s first short story has been revised and edited beyond the self-editing I’ve been doing for all my stories. Part two is in the hands of the editor, but it won’t be worked on until July 30th.

Once we’re happy with the editing, I’ll publish it. I hope this might happen in August.

I’m hoping to work with the editor to go through my other stories and revise/edit them, but this is still a work in progress.

As a reminder, the link for part one of Cleo and Petra’s short stories can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RFK6L97

I took a day off to relax yesterday, so I didn’t post my weekly writing status until now.

I’m working on round two of editing Cleo & Petra’s first short story. I scheduled handing part two to the editor for next week.

Tuesday I skipped working on my writing because I had a massage. Anyhow, I still hit close to my 5k words for the week. I believe I finished the prequel book, and I’m working on self-editing it.

Next week it’s back to working on Heather and Sasha’s story.

Wow, July’s here already? June went by way to fast.

There’s not much to report this week. I’ve hit my 5k word goal. Most of this writing was spent in finishing more of the prequel book to Bastet’s Daughters/Rainy Days. I think I may complete this novel this week.

Otherwise, the first short story for Cleo & Petra is still with the editor I’m working with to help me write better novels. I believe I should get this returned to me on Wednesday. After I go through the changes, I’ll upload the new version, and talk with the editor to see when I can send another story to them.

Okies. This all I have to report this week.

All right. I’ve made changes to my web page, adding pages for the new books I’m writing  or finished.

I finished writing the 10k second short story for Cleo & Petra. I plan on releasing it next Sunday on the 7th of July.

The prequel novel is at 40k words, so I have two weeks or four weeks left on this one, depending if I do 1k words or 500 words a day.

I’m going to return to Heather and Sasha’s story, which means I’ll hit 10k words in this one by the end of next week.

With this said. I’m shopping for a different editor. It happens. Sometimes there’s creative differences.

All right, this is everything for this week.

Heya. It’s the weekend which means I need to write my weekly writing status.

I think I might have finished the second short story for Cleo and Petra. I’m waiting to hear what my reader thinks because I’m debating about adding another scene or not. Anyhow, if I do it won’t take me long. I’ve also self-edited this story over the weekend. It’ll be handed to the editor soon.

Otherwise, I’m still working on the prequel novel for my Bastet’s Daughters/Rainy Days series. I’m trying to finish this story before moving on to writing more of Heather’s and Sasha’s story or any of the others I’ve been thinking about or writing.

I did stick with my goal of writing 5k words for the week, so yay!

I’m also hoping to get round one of Rainy’s first book returned to me this week from the editor. Kind of anxious to see what changes I might have to make once she’s done going through this first book.

All right. This is all I have to say this week.

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I’ve changed my plans for the year because of hiring an editor. So, I’m still writing but the daily 1k words I add to my stories on Monday through Friday are being added to the stories I feel like writing.

Cleo & Petra’s second short story is coming along. I’ve hit 5,870 of the 10k words I’d like this story to have. I may release this short story this year, depending on the schedule between me and the editor I’m working with.

Heather’s and Sasha’s story for Dyalessia Friends is at 4,100 words of the 50,000+ words I’d like this story to have. I am working on it, but slower than I planned.

The prequel book for Bastet’s Daughter/Rainy’s setting is at 34,000 of the 50,000 words I’m trying to reach. I plan on continuing to write in this story throughout the year.

Ghoul Camp is a silly idea I came up with the other day. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these stories. However, each story isn’t going to be long and I plan on going through the alphabet with these. So far I’m writing Andi the Alien’s story on how they arrive at Ghoul Camp and the events they get involved in. The idea of these stories is the camp is a place where supernatural beings can go and spend time together. So, it’s a summer camp for the children of the supernatural races.

I have no idea where this idea came from. Grins.

I also plan on writing part two of Elly of Ellyville. Once I start this, I’ll post the word count in my updates. There are also a few other ideas I may work on when I write my 1k words per day. I’ll share those during my writing updates.

I’m also working on rewriting/editing Bess and Mira’s book because its one of them I plan on having the editor help me fix over the next few months.

All right, this is everything for this week! I’ll have a new update next week!

 

When I first decided to publish book one of Dyalessia Games, I wasn’t sure what I was doing when it came to building a back log of books. Plus, I didn’t have the knowledge or resources to understand/pay for the type of product I’d like to deliver.

This said, I’m working with an editor for the next few months to make my current books better than the way I’ve tried to do it with editing software, a reader, and my self-editing. This means I’ve decided I may not publish any of my longer novels for the rest of the year. However, if my editor can squeeze in enough time to finish any of my short stories, I may publish these to keep my back log growing.

I’m not going to stop writing but I’m cutting back to doing my 1k words a day from Monday to Friday. These words are going to be in whatever story I’m in the mood to write because I’ll have time to finish them, get covers made, self-edit them, and send them to the paid editor during the next six months.

When next year comes, I’ll have enough finished books to publish them one after another.

Sorry if my readers are upset about this plan, but it’s something I need to do to give you a better reading experience than the one I’ve tried to do by myself.