I can recycle some of the work I’ve done so far, and the scenes are the same, just often requiring enough of a rewrite as to mean it’s easy to just write it over, but at least I don’t have to re-imagine the scene.

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I don’t plan on writing the first word of the story until Tuesday. I have written a synopsis, so I know where it is going (not something I always do).

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I read a LOT of books, both “indie” and traditionally published. I regularly find mistakes, misspellings, etc. I know I’m not the only one. I also know that as a self-publishing author, the pressure is on me… not just for my own works, but to keep up the reputation for self-publishing.

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I have a tendency to write several projects at a time. That way, when I hit a blockage on one, I can jump to another. The flip side is that I can get bogged down in one of them and ignore others. That is kind of where I am right now…

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Without opening all of them to look, they are between zero words (the aforementioned story I haven’t started writing) and 50,000 words. I usually use 100k words as a goal. But, how far along a book is in word count doesn’t portend to when it might come out.

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I had one scene and the rest of the story has flowed out of that. I could easily slip a couple of Dixon-Prince characters into the story, but have resisted so far.

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