Wow, four months went by just like that. I’ll admit I hit a serious period of burnout thanks to last semester. Taking three creative writing workshops at the same time was not the best idea. Still, it frees me up for much easier semesters now, and next fall so it was worth it.

A whole lot has happened since then for me personally, but very little has been done writing-wise. Avatars & Identity still needs to be published, and I almost have everything I need for that. My original goal was to have all formats out and available at about the same time, but that is turning out to be fairly unrealistic. Each platform requires different formatting, which includes the cover. Right now I have two of three done. I could go ahead and push it out the door, but that means the audio book version won’t be ready for some time. Probably best not to wait any longer though. I think I’ll make submitting everything for publishing my goal this weekend. On top of homework of course.

As for this semester, I’m taking my senior creative writing thesis class (undergraduate level). This is the senior project or capstone basically, and as creative writing majors we get to pick what we want to do for this project. Naturally, I picked writing the third and final installment to Stephen’s trilogy, Revelation. I know I’ve been putting off doing this pretty heavily for some time. Part of that was not know where to start exactly. Another was just being tired of dealing with the same characters for yet another novel. A third, and something I hadn’t realized right away, was that I have a pretty good idea of what some of the major events are going to be, and they’re going to be hard to write. As tired as I may be of some of these people, it will still be hard to say goodbye. The good news is I’m already on Chapter 4, and I’ve just finished my second full week of classes. The goal is to hit about 1k words a day, which gives me more than enough time to finish the book before the semester is over. My professor for my senior project class has never received a finished, published novel before. So that’s the goal. I may not be able to get the full print version here in time, but I can definitely have a pre-pub copy ready to turn in.

Now if I just knew where this next chapter was going…