4/1/2014 1 pm EST finished first draft of part two

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).

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

So, I am in the last lap (the epilogue) of the follow up to the first Hare book. Had trouble getting the tone right (still not sure about it) as the story takes a somewhat dark turn. I saw a post about the great Kate Bush album (who's Aerial album fuels much of my writing attempts for these books) The Dreaming. I popped that in and finally found a dark and discordant work of music that will help me get into the mood to write the final bit.

Here is a wonderful video for the track "Get out of my House" set to the Shining movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyp5HaPj68

looking for Beta readers

So, if there is anyone out there (anyone?) and you would like to read future drafts of the sequel to "The Hare, the Bow and the Girl' drop me a line in the comment box. Beat readers, or early readers, are folks who read through a finished raft and (can) provide feedback.
Thanks

stuck... and need reviews :-)

Progress has ground to  a halt right at the denouement (well for this part anyway). No worries, I will hopefully be able to work around this.
Meanwhile- if you have read the first book would you kindly consider posting  a review (good or bad) on Amazon? Thanks!

Tweets

Am now on twitter

https://twitter.com/DHRichards1967

Part Two - coming along

I noticed today that I am at about 40,000 words for part two of The Hare, the Bow and the Girl. That is about 8k more than the first book it total. I fee like I have about 10k more words to go, but maybe 20-30k. I see light at the end of the tunnel!

Fully revised and expanded text now up on Amazon

Hi,
Sorry not to post for so long, but lots going on:
1. I went back and fully revised the first book, "The Hare, the Bow and the Girl" to fix some things that bothered me. I also had a professional editor look at the work (and suggest  a ton of great changes) as well as clean up typos and grammar. There may still be plenty of issues (all my fault as I tinkered with the text even after it got proof-read) but it should be dramatically improved.

2. I have begun to submit the text to some agents in hope of landing a deal of some sort because...

3. ... there is more! I am about 36k words into the next "book" which picks up where the first one left off. If anyone wants to read the chapters in progress let me know and I will post them here- otherwise I will wait until I polish them more and get them edited. I hope to finish this second book by May 2014.

Thanks

link to the revised text: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hare-Bow-Girl-Lepus-ebook/dp/B00GCI7RLE/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_tnr_2