Armored Piercing Operations

I know the last post was more rambling than I usually do. No one really reads these posts, but doing these updates help me keep track of my progress and help me put things into perspective. The Draft2Digital debacle really hurt my options for self publishing and made me feel more boxed in. As I said before, Amazon is the only thing keeping me around as a publisher. If they copy Draft2Digital, then I will quit publishing for good. I'm putting so much time and effort into AP and I need it to feel worth it in the end. The Raid of Hotel Laurier barely moved units, despite it being very cheap. If AP3 does similar or worse, then it would feel like I wasted so much time for nothing. Me going out of my way to hit at least 10 pages a week is something unprecedented for me. So,…

I'm now 293 pages into the second draft, which is 14 pages since the last update. I dropped the ball this week and almost didn't reach the minimum 10 page goal. I wrote some pages hours before this update, which I've never done before, and because of that I hit 14 pages. I felt more tired and procrastinated more. I did manage to finish another short segment and set up another one. I think I have a harder time writing chapters that don't focus on characters from the first two APs. Also, my mental health declined because I wrote a lot less. It seems my mental health is dependent on how much I write in a week. During the Brazil segment, my mental health was a lot higher since I had consistent good writing weeks. Before the weekend, I didn't hit the 10 page minimum and I almost felt like…

With the post I made when I reached 200 pages, I said I hoped I would reach 600 pages by the end of August. That was a lofty goal to make. If I am to hit that, I would have to write at least 10 pages a day, or 70 pages a week. From now to the end of August is about one and a half months. So, I would need to write over 320 pages by then, which would be record breaking for me. I didn't write that much in a short time during the final months of the AP4 draft. So, I'm more likely to reach 400 pages by the end of August and maybe 600 by November.

I'm now 279 pages into the second draft, which is 11 pages since the last update. I ended up doing less this week because I had to do some publishing-related stuff, which took up a lot of time. And I did run into a brief roadblock where I wasn't sure how to continue the book. I did finish the final battle of Afghanistan, which really tested Conrad's limits. After that, I got stuck. It was mostly related to travel timing. One character has to leave one country and end up in another, but I had the time inbetween be very short which was inconsistent when other characters travelled to that same country. I had to shift some plans around on the outline, but I figured it out. I think I will write more this coming week.