Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Last Days of Atlantis: Status Update, 28 April
This past week, I’ve felt a bit in the doldrums in my work on the third novel in the Atlantis trilogy. This often happens when you get to the middle of the book, once you’re past the initial burst of energy with starting a new project.
It’s happening to me now because I realized I had taken the wrong approach in several related scenes in the section I’m working on. I hadn’t given one set of characters anything to do, so all the action progression depended on another set of overworked characters. I had also put one character in the wrong place, and forgotten about her relationship with another character. So I had to re-write much of three chapters.
Yet my sense of losing momentum is actually a false perception. I added more than 3,000 words to my word count, and I set myself up for more progress. Writing a novel is such a long process that there are inevitably good days and weeks and bad days and weeks (sometimes months). With experience, you learn that your moods come and go, but as long as you keep sitting at your keyboard and plugging away, you’ll get to your destination eventually.
Stats below. Remember, title of the first book in the series is Mother Ink and you can read about it here.
