Another long wait between blog posts I know, but things have
been proceeding ‘apace’ as they say. I
am immensely enjoying married life and Debs and I have been making plans on
moving house in the spring of 2015.
Writing wise, I have written over 40,000 words for Haldred
Chronicles: Shade. That’s a good, proper
milestone achieved and the count is still growing at a respectable pace. Major scenes are fully written and what’s
needed now is the branching scenes and some extra descriptions here and
there. I’m happy with the way things
have been coming together.
I’ve also been inspired recently with a few more ideas for further
Haldred Chronicles books. These did
distract me a bit from my work on Shade but I’ve successfully taken note of
them for future reference so not so bad.
The ideas bring the total number of Haldred Chronicles
sequel stories to 23. Yeah, didn’t see
that coming. Am pleased though as it
shows that my subconscious is taking an active interest in the idea; it will
keep me encouraged.
As well as this I’ve been having additional random story
ideas. These have ranged from 4 ideas
I’ve had for additional Horus Heresy novels (a series of books based on the
Warhammer 40k game by Games-Workshop and published by Black Library), 2 more Haldred
Chronicles spin-offs, as well as a completely random idea spawned from a dream
I had. That particular dream consisted
of giant bugs attacking the earth; unoriginal perhaps but still cool.
So the writing is going well, and I’m hoping to be sending
my proof readers something soon. If I can
just knuckle down and finish things then Shade will be released November 2014
as planned. Until next time!
