Armored Piercing Operations

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.

I'm now 268 pages into the second draft, which is 16 pages since the last update. I did say I would likely end up writing less, but it's not that much lower. This also breaks the streak of doing 20+ pages a week. I'm now on Day 4 of the war and there is a lot of stuff coming up. The finale of Afghanistan is the next segment and the France finale is also coming up. I will hit 300 pages soon, but I don't know if it will be this coming week or after.

So, I just counted the last weeks and I did 20+ pages five weeks in a row. Which means I wrote 100+ pages within 5 weeks. This is very positive progress! However, I think I might end up writing less this week because I'll be switching to different groups of characters. I guess it was easier these past 5 weeks because they were mainly focused on one segment, Brazil. I have some France battles coming up but they won't nearly be as long. But I'm still motivated as ever to keep going with this book and hopefully any fans are excited by the progress. I am determined to make the 5+ year long wait since AP2 worthwhile.