July Update (Patreon)

It's that time again, or, at least I've put it off enough.

Words written in June->July: ~50k. 50k SKB2 (90k total)

Not an overly productive month once again, but it's alright. In my personal world, I did get an offer on the house, and a previous one occurred and fell through in this past month. I have an inspection (again) tomorrow, and hopefully no more showings and will be done with this early august. Before end of august I should be in the Philippines back with my computer and stuff, and hopefully, a comfy chair to work from.

In truth, I hope to finish SKB2 by the end of this month. I've been struggling a bit with how to end it, or where to end it, more like. I have tons of conflicts and events for soul knight in my mind for the horizon, but the question is whether I can finish any of them or not where I want the book to end (length wise).

I definitely don't want to go through setting up a ton of stuff, only to end the book with only one more event or thing completed, or something like this, and, I definitely don't want the book to be as long as Book 1 or Bonded Summoner Book 5. That is just too long, and too long for readers to wait for the next installment (since, making the book 180k long means it will take me 2 months to complete. Just the way it goes)

I hope people enjoyed the journey so far, even if Nick's level didn't go up much in the book. We have a lot of things that happened aside from that, but I suppose one can think the plot didn't overly progress. I think Nick's fight with his father is an excellent climactic battle, and I'm not so sure any other conflict I can line up soon enough can compare to it. I also (on my side) improved the battle, and I intend to tighten up the lava elemental battle to make it more exciting, too.

As I mentioned in chapter 23 author note, I also intend to flip around floor 6 with floor 8, as I think it makes more sense. Then, the Oasis is where I intend to expand the time with the Wolfen girls to be more of a date with them, which will lead to their first explicit scene. I think this is better for the flow of the story (and the romance of them -- I am going to make the lust/sex more of the ice breaker, to make things less awkward in the future really). I think this might be for the best, even if it's different from what I do normally. But will see what I can work out. I wasn't feeling it the first time around, but perhaps now that I have written them a bit, I feel more comfortable with making it happen then.

I also want to shift their speech patterns a bit more to make them more unique. Right now, I (personally) feel Fang sets herself apart from Luna and Sable, but those two don't really talk, or really act all that different from Eirwen or Kaya.

When I have these chapters redone and make these shifts, I may drop them in a bundle here, since they might be somewhat significant. For now I am just pressing through, to try to get to the end of the book.

Audiobook for SK 1 appears to be doing really well, and people are enjoying it a lot. Alyssa Poon and Evan Jordan are all being pretty well praised for their performance, and folks are liking the book, so that is fantastic.

That's all I have for everyone, so I'll see you all next month!