Armored Piercing Operations

I'm now 131 pages into the second draft, which is 13 pages since the last update. I struggled a lot with the Pripyat, Ukraine mission. I needed to make a battle scene work and I kept getting stuck on how to make it work. Thankfully, I did end up finishing the mission, and it's like 25 or so pages. The next few chapters will be talking/briefing scenes and I think after that I'll have a mission where I introduce another from the Mayakovsky family.

Despite writing a bit less than last week, I actually did a lot of writing overall. I wrote two chapters for a standalone book and I added a few more pages to my AP5 brainstorming. So, not all my writing last week was done on AP3 exclusively. There's a lot of work to do all around. I'm also thinking about taking a break from AP3 so…

AP1's 7 year anniversary is coming up very soon. I haven't really been celebrating each year on the blog, but I hope any fans will rejoice with the series being around for so long. I think I'll try to make AP1-related Q&As on Goodreads. I don't think I'll return to VSS365 just for AP1, but I suppose it would be an easy way to celebrate. I've been working on this series since 2010, which is a very long time. It is very close to my heart for sure.

I'm now at 118 pages in AP3's second draft, which is 15 pages since the last update. I did say it was likely that I would end up writing less than last week. This time around, the difficulty was with a mission set in Ukraine. If you remember at the end of AP2, Sipho and team were on their way to an outpost Merlov Krachenko had in Pripyat, Ukraine. So, this mission was them finally reaching that outpost. They do run into some complications, but I had a hard time figuring out what sort of problems they should face. I do look at my first draft constantly to see how the original versions of scenes played out. Despite both versions having the same time and location, they both play out very differently. I did end up working through a lot of the mission, but I'm not done writing it yet.…

I'm now at 103 pages, which is 31 pages since the last update. This is the most I've written in a week so far. The first 27 pages were written in 5 days. I ended up missing two days in a row this last week, but I still ended up writing a lot. And I've finally passed the 100 page mark. I'm on page three of the outline, which is crazy to see that 100 pages only cover up to that amount. The outline is 151 pages, so how many pages in the second draft would it be once it's all finished?

Overall, this was a great week for AP3. But I predict I'll end up writing much less next week. Hopefully, these updates have been exciting for any AP fans.