Melanie Nilles

I was going to post last night, but yesterday wore me out. Ever have one of those days that you’re so brain-dead by the end that you can’t focus any more? Yeah? Well, that was yesterday for me. It’s been a long week. Now, I’m glad it’s at an end. Hooray for weekends!

Anyway, I’ve been slowing a bit on the rewrite of Dark Angel. While I don’t think I will finish by the end of this month, as I had hoped (so it could go back to editing and get published–sorry for anyone waiting on that), it will definitely be done next month. I could still finish this month. You never know how the creativity will flow some days. I can have a 500 word day then a 5K word day. There are too many factors involved to explain why–weather, sleep patterns, family, horse, cats, housework, etc. All affect my mood and that’s the biggest influence on creativity, for me at least.

As of last night, I had about 32,500 words of the rewrite done. Around the half-way mark. Woohoo! Not quite what my goal for this point would be, but in the ballpark. I slowed down this last week a bit and got behind my goal. I hope to catch up as I’m going into some scenes I’ve been eager to write since the planning of the rewrite.

Why not write them while I think of them? I’m a linear writer. I can plan ahead, but I prefer to write in order. I can go back later and edit, but in the initial writing, I have to work with the right order of events. And those scenes I plan way ahead tend to change, usually for the better.

In other news, I’m still waiting for the pre-release of Dragon Prophecy to turn into actual availability. And I’m waiting on edits for Dragon Legends, which looks like it will be delayed a couple months. I expected that after the four month delay on Dragon Prophecy. Don’t kill the messenger. It’s all in the hands of the publisher right now.