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Confessions of a Steampunk Sequel — Part 6

January 3, 2012 by suzannelazear

Ding Dong the Draft is DONE!

Yesterday I typed THE END for book two of my Aether Chronicles series.

~whew~

I was really afraid I wasn’t going to make it.

Well, technically I didn’t since my self-imposed goal was actually December 31, but Jan 2 isn’t too shabby.

91k in 2 months and 2 days isn’t shabby at all.

However, I’m not anywhere near done.

For the sake of vomiting out this draft and getting it on paper I glossed over some things….mostly the technical aspects and proper part names of the airships.  I will be spending this week researching all the things I didn’t research and filling in all the blanks I left.  I’ve never done that before and I’m not sure I liked doing it.  Certainly it took me out of my comfort zone.

I also need to clean up all the errors.  I am really bad about leaving out words, writing the wrong words, and the like. 

Then, it’s off to a couple of betas. 

Book 2 was tricky for me, mostly because I had to take it in a direction other than I’d originally intended and I really, really, really pantsed it.  Usually I know how a book begins and ends and just have to pants the middle.  Not so with this book…

It also didn’t end where I wanted to, and took some twists and turns I hadn’t planned on. 

We’ll see how it all goes.  Hopefully it’s for the better. 

Now…back to filling in those blanks. 

–

Suzanne Lazear writes steampunk tales for teens.  Her debut novel, INNOCENT DARKNESS, book one of The Aether Chronicles, releases August 2012 from Flux. Visit her personal blog for more adventures.

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Posted in Books, Books, Steampunk, Writing | Tagged Aether Chronicles, Steampunk, suzanne lazear, Writing, writing steampunk | 5 Comments

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  1. on January 3, 2012 at 3:24 pm J.D.

    Congrats, Suzanne! Good luck with the revisions!


  2. on January 3, 2012 at 3:47 pm Ceridwen (@CeridwenT)

    Congratulations Suzanne! 91k in 2 months! Amazing! Thanks for sharing the process with us.

    Do you have any idea of the average amount of words you wrote each day? I ask that because I’m writing my first draft, and I’m trying to reach 40k by the end of the month, and it’s encouraging to know that you’ve did 45k in a month. 🙂

    Good luck with the next part!


  3. on January 3, 2012 at 5:09 pm Suzanne Lazear

    I work full time and an average of 2k a day is a really comfortable for me. But this is me, and I write fast. For me this word count gives me flexability on those days where the only time I get is at lunch and I make it up by writing more on the weekend.


    • on January 10, 2012 at 4:13 pm Ceridwen (@CeridwenT)

      Good strategy! I’m doing about 1,000, so I’ll try to push it a little.

      I also work full time, and I’ve been trying to fit my writing time before I go to work in the mornings. I’m waking up at 5am and writing for an hour. I wasn’t getting anything done in the evenings, so that was a desperate measure. 🙂

      At lunch, I usually do other things, so I hope the morning schedule works for me. At least, it’s summer here in Brazil and that helps a lot.

      Thanks for the reply!


  4. on January 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm Steam at Harper's Ferry

    Congratulations!



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