Writing Begins on Project: Autumn Winds

Autumn Winds is ready to start the drafting process. I have an action plan for this book and I am taking all the lessons I learned writing Shadow Fox and applying them to my new book.

First: This books is going to be 120,000 words – 60 chapters – 2000 words per chapter (give or take). This book will be in three parts – 20 chapters per part and each part will take place in a different part of the Embersong Forest.

Second: I am going to only write five days out of the week which means that it will take about three months to complete the rough draft. That means that I will be working on a different part of the book each month.

I would like the first draft to be done by the end of November. The goal is to write about the season of Autumn during the time in which it is happening.

Lastly, for this book I will be starting a vlog series for it. At the end of each week I will record a little video about how the process is going along with some nice B roll of what the Autumn looks like in my corner of the world. I will post the vlogs on YouTube but also share them here. This means I will be not doing written blog posts about the process this time. Vlogs will be posted every Saturday.

I am going to work on this project first because the second book in the Shadow Fox series needs more time to cook in regards of direction and plot. It has a lot of moving parts and characters in it.

Meanwhile – the first chapter of Shadow Fox will be going up on Wattpad Friday, September 5. I will post one chapter at a time to allow me time to implement any updates as I go. New chapters will go up every Friday. Once all the chapters are up – I will leave the book up for about three months before I start making movement towards hard copy and ebook publishing.

That’s a lot of updates and I know it. I hope that you will all join me on this next part of my writing journey and if any of it inspired you to start you own creative projects, let me know in the comments.