Writing Update: Skrikare Draft Four Finished!

So about a week ago I finally finished draft four of Skrikare: The Living Weapon, and the progress I'm making with this WIP is beyond exciting!

A lot of rather big changes were made, the main ones including getting rid of werewolves as a race (they held no purpose), and changing the way some of my magic elements worked. I also added a character ... which I realized as I typed that that I forgot to fit a mention of her in near the end, so excuse me while I go make a note for draft five. My bad - but at least there are future drafts still to come!

How many drafts, I have no idea, but that's okay because the process is fun. I do already have a list of things to fix/change/think about in draft five (as you could probably tell from my earlier realization), but I plan on doing a full read-through soon of the finished draft four and see if anything needs to be added to that list before I dive in. I'm not sure yet when I'll start that, but for this week at least, it's a no-writing allowed week so I can focus on other things ... like playing Pokemon Shield after work.

Yes, writing breaks are important! Yet I can't wait to get back to it. :D

On to the Second Draft!

FINALLY! The first draft took a super long time, but it's on to the second draft of Skrikare: The Living Weapon! The goal is definitely to take fewer than 5+ years to finish it. ;) So far, so good - I'm already almost at 8,000 words since I started it a week ago, and I have plenty of time to write more this weekend.

Some of those 8k words are reused - though tweaked and rearranged - from the first draft, but I already know there's going to be way less content to reuse the further I go. I guess that happens when you add more complexity to the plot and have to change the whole ending and add entire chapters in order to get to that new ending. The things we do for our WIPs . . .

But what's in store for the new draft? An important hidden object, near death, actual death, deleted extraneous characters, technology used for evil, et cetera, et cetera. Yup, it's gonna be a fun time.

Now to get cracking!