"Lots of words and some are even good"
The last few days I've had the luxury of spending lots of time writing. I'm working hard to finish up "Black Swan Antithesis" (Book 2 of the Black Swan Planet trilogy), and am about 90% done with the first draft.
My original goal for this story was to complete the first draft in "May, 2018" and I feel confident that will happen, unless something unexpected happens and takes me away from the computer for days on end. Keep in mind the first draft is rough - it's the equivalent of me telling the story to myself the first time. While the plot and situations will remain, I expect to make significant changes to descriptions, details and word choices. For a draft I don't worry about repeating a word twice in a paragraph or minor plot holes - those get fixed in my re-writes.
For those who read the first book in the series, I'll tell you Raka returns as well as some of the original characters, and several new ones, but no spoilers. There are more off-color jokes and embarrassing situations, of course, and I hope many laughs as well as solid science fiction.
Meantime, while this is being finished, you can check out my short story "Sphere of Influence" on Kindle (free if you have Kindle Unlimited) and soon to be on Audible (read by the very talented David Swanson, the same narrator who did the Audible version of Black Swan Planet).
Carry on and never give up, never surrender!
James Peters
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