Tempered in Battle is up to about 216,500 words and climbing. I’m definitely not finishing the manuscript in the next two days, but I’m still working on it, hoping to get it done sooner rather than later. But we’ll see what’s going to happen, won’t we? I’m also probably going to be adjusting one of […]

The last few days haven’t been terribly conducive to writing, unfortunately, but I’ve still got Tempered in Battle up to about 206,000 words and climbing! I’m giving less than even odds that I manage to finish this month, but I think it’s going to be close. Beyond that, I’ve been just trucking away at my […]

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, […]