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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…

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.

I won't be adding books directly to other sites. Stores like Apple Books, Google Play Books, and Barnes and Noble have threshold minimums. So, if you don't like Amazon or Kobo, then you won't be able to read any of my books. Like I said in my blog, if Amazon follows D2D's moves, then I'm done with self publishing.

I'm now 72 pages into the second draft of AP3, which is 22 pages since the last update. Things got a little rough but I'm glad I wrote two times what I did last week. I'm finally on page two of the outline. The current chapter is set in Moscow, Russia. I forgot to write a chapter before where a different group of characters get kidnapped. Thankfully, I found a way to add it in without having to do any restructuring. The Moscow scene is split into two parts: one that is essentially a briefing and the other is the mission. I put the kidnapping chapter between the briefing and mission.

I think I can get the Moscow chapter done quickly. The next mission will be in Afghanistan and I think I'm going to have challenges again with character bios of returning characters. So don't be surprised if I write…