Ok, well then. I started writing the follow up to The Hare, The Bow and The Girl on December 18 2013 and finished it up today. It is 47,400 words long. On the days that I wrote I wrote an average of 1693 words. It took me 28 days (writing days ) spread out over three and half months.
Now the hard part, revisions (lots and lots of revision). The ending needs a lot of work (may cut most of it) and there is even a part in the middle where I came back after not writing for a few days and could not figure out where I had been going with that story thread. The manuscript actually has a note, "Where was I going with this?" in parens.
It gets tricky here too because instead of going back and revising right away I am actually going to plow into book three. I have a few scenes I need to get down before they leave me.
So I figure it will be at least summer before I start to roll out chapters from book two, but I will do that, here on the blog, just like last time. I hope to have book two on Amazon as an edited/proof read volume in the fall.
For the record, the first book took me about 18 months (I started it and then left it for 6 months).
Blog for D H Richards, Author of "Levels," and "The Hare, the Bow and the Girl"
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