Author: Grey Lupine

All right. I’ve managed to save enough money to spend a portion of this income to hire an editor. Over the coming weeks, I’m going to continue to run my books through the programs and the self editing I’ve been doing when I started. However, I’m also going to send these revised stories to the editor.

It is my hope this will fix most of the errors people mention when they read my stories.

Book one of Rainy’s trilogy is the current book the editor has, and it should be returned to me by the end of June. It may take me the rest of the year to complete the other books I published over the last two years.

I finished writing Rainy’s third book, and I plan on publishing the e-book later tonight (Sunday). Once the e-book goes live, I’ll publish the paperback version.

The prequel book is still coming along. I’ve hit 32,000 words. I’m behind on this story by 500 words, but I’m not concerned about the missing words. I might reach the goal during the rest of the time I spend writing this book.

Cleo & Petra’s second short story is progressing. I’ve hit 4,100 words out of the 10k I’d like this story to have. I need to work on more of this story to finish it by July.

This week I’m starting book two of Dyalessia Friends. Heather and Sasha have been pestering me to write their story, which means it’s time to work on this book.

I also had a silly idea over the weekend, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this idea. I’ll have to see where this idea takes me.

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

May ended before I realized the month was gone. I had a tough week because last Sunday I threw my back out, which happens about twice a year. It’s taken me all week to feel better, and my back is still aching from what happened.

Anyhow, I’m working on finishing Rainy’s third book. I have one major scene left to write, which will push my word count over the 50k words I’d like it to have. At the moment, I’m at 49k for this story.

The prequel novel is at 29,800 words. I realize I wanted to hit 30k words on this book, but the missing two hundred words doesn’t bother me much.

Cleo’s and Petra’s second short story is at 1,960 words. I have the rest of June to finish this short story, and to reach the 10k words I’d like this story to have.

I also sat down and put a short story I wrote in 2017 through another round of editing and I rewrote a lot of the passages. This means Bastet’s Daughter: Samantha Redding has been cleaned of the thousand or more thats I left in this story, not knowing at the time this was one of the words you’re supposed to try to remove. Now, I hope this story reads better than it did, much like Dyalessia Games: Alex & Christie reads as a better story because of the editing I did on this book.

I’m working on the remaining books, giving them another round of edits and converting them to the Kindle Create files, but it’s a project I won’t finish for a while.

Saturday means another update on my writing for the week. I didn’t hit my word goal for Rainy’s third book this week because I skipped writing on Tuesday due to getting a massage. So, I’m at 44k words instead of 45k. I have about two weeks left to hit the 55k words I’d like it to have.

Also, I’m working on editing it this weekend, which means I can hand the printed pages to my reader.

The prequel book for Bastet’s/Rainy’s setting is still coming along. I’m at 27k, which means the book is about half finished. I’m still on my goal to finish this in August.

I’m working on part two of Cleo’s and Petra’s short stories. I hit 1k words on it already and I have the rest of June to add the other 9k I plan on writing for this story.

Weekend time means another update time! I’ve completed the revisions and editing on Dyalessia Games book one. As I mentioned, I plan on working on converting my other books to Kindle’s file format instead of the Word doc files I’ve used for the past year, which also means I’ll run these stories through another round of edits when I do this.

Rainy’s third book is coming along. I hit my 40k word goal for the week, which means I have about three weeks left of writing to do to finish this book and this trilogy.

I’m at the halfway point for the prequel book for Bastet’s/Rainy’s setting, having hit 25k words this week. I skipped writing on Friday, but I still hit my weekly word goal so I didn’t mind not working on this book on Friday.

During the week I also started the opening passage for Cleo’s and Petra’s second short story, which I plan to publish in July, probably the first week of the month.

Otherwise, this week has been tough because it rained for four or five days, and all I did was ache. Especially in my incision scar across my right side, which meant I spent a lot of time laying in bed reading and resting. Finally at the end of the week, the ache eased enough for me to get things done.

Time for my writing status update.

I wrote all week for Rainy’s third book, hitting my 35,000 word goal. Things are progressing in this story, and I’m working on ending the plots/ideas I started in book one and two.

I’m at 22,600 words written for the prequel book for Bastet’s/Rainy’s setting is, which means I hit my word goal for the week. This book is still coming along and it should be finished in August/Sept.

As I mentioned in my other post, book one of Dyalessia Games is being rewritten and edited. When I wrote this book, I didn’t know many of the things I do now. Yeah, I admit, I made a lot of mistakes. I hope this version is better than the one I first wrote.

I’m in the process of rewriting and giving this book another round of edits. When I first wrote this story, I wasn’t aware of a lot of the rules I’ve learned during the last year and half. I should have done this before now, but I don’t have an excuse on why I didn’t fix these mistakes.

Anyhow, these changes should be completed by the Sunday.

I didn’t write my weekly writing status until now because I needed to add another 1k words this weekend to Rainy’s third book because I skipped writing on Tuesday due to a massage. Anyhow, now I reached my 30k word goal, so yay! I need to work on finishing the rest of this book during May, giving me about 25k words left to work with.

The prequel book is coming along still, but I’m not in as much of a rush to finish this book. So far, I’m at 20k words, which means I hit my word goal for the week.

Also, tomorrow (Sunday) I have a surprise I’ve been holding onto for a while.

This month went by quick!

Anyhow, I’ve hit 25,300 words in Rainy’s third book of the first trilogy I planned on writing. So, I have to get through May and this book and the first part of the series will be finished. On Friday, I wrote the ending. I know, weird, right? How do you write the ending when you have 30k words left? I don’t know, but this is how my creativity works for me.

As for the prequel book, this one is moving along. I’m at 17,900 words on this, which means I’m ahead of my goal by almost 500 words. This week I could slow down on this book because of this. I’ll have to see what happens, or how exhausted I am as the week progresses.

All right, this is the last post for April.

I lost track of time today because I’ve been playing the rerelease of Final Fantasy 10 since it came out earlier this week.

Rainy’s third book is coming along. I hit my 20k word goal, so this book will be half complete at the end of the upcoming week.

Anyhow, I’m at 15k words for the prequel book for Bastet’s/Rainy’s setting I wanted to write last year. This means I should have this book finished in August or September, depending on if I want to publish it first or if I want to publish a different book first.

All right. This is all I have for this week, so back to playing more of FF10.