Armored Piercing Operations

I just realized that this was the second time I wrote 22 pages in a week for the AP3 second draft. My highest is still 31 pages. I don't know if I'll ever break that record, but we shall see.

I'm now on 164 pages into the second draft, which is 22 pages since the last update. This was a very productive week and I finished two battle scenes. The first one was in France, and it was shorter, while the second one was in Afghanistan and it was done in two parts. The next segment, which will be very long, takes place in Brazil. I'm now on page 6 of the outline and the Brazil segment is very detailed so I shouldn't have that much difficulty with getting through it. I'm really looking forward to this segment because it will introduce a major villain for Sipho and team to deal with. Also, a character from AP2 returns which will bring a complicated dynamic for Sipho and Macoy specifically.

Overall, I'm very happy with the progress made this last week. Getting a lot of work done boosts my mental health.…

So I'm now 142 pages into the second draft, 11 pages since the last update. It seems I keep writing 2 pages less each week. I did drop the ball this week and got distracted with other stuff. However, I did complete two briefing chapters and wrote the chapter that introduced Dimitri Mayakovsky, another brother in the Mayakovsky family. He plays a larger role later on in the book. There's also another large segment coming up with Sipho and team that's set in Brazil. A new villain will be introduced there that will cause the team a lot of problems.

I need to refocus and get back to writing more pages. It has been nearly 5 years since publishing AP2 and there hasn't been a new AP since. Any fans of mine deserve to have a new entry as soon as possible. I want to have AP3 out before AP1's…

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…