I’m up to about 197,500 words on Tempered in Battle, and I’ve completed one of the major scenes I had planned, and just began the scene before we get to the rapid buildup to and climax of the series. I’m expecting the current scene to take one, possibly two chapters to complete, including the one […]

I’m up to about 185,000 words on Tempered in Battle and climbing. I’m fairly confident I’ll finish the rough draft this month, but we’ll see when I get there. On the plus side, I’ve already done several editing passes on the earlier manuscripts, so once I’ve finished Tempered in Battle and have decided where to […]

I have Tempered in Battle up to ~172,500 words, which is somewhat surprising after my wife got paged ~5 times for work on Thursday night and Friday morning, completely disrupting my sleep schedule. Worse for her, though… but that’s how it goes. I’m getting into what I think is the final stages of the book, […]

There wasn’t a lot that happened this week, aside from my wife getting back from her trip. I have ~160,000 words on Tempered in Battle at present, and things are coming along at a steady pace. Not much else to say about it, honestly… I’m just trying to keep plinking away at the manuscript until […]