Author Update July 6, 2024
This is my first post on this website, but if you’ve been following me on tiktok, I’ve been doing a monthly author update like this for months now.
So, what has changed so far? Well, I’ve added 3 chapters to my novel, but I’ve actually trimmed back my word count a bit. Don’t fret. This is a good thing. While I’ve added 3 chapters to my book, they are not done, just planned and blocked out, so I know what to put there that will fit the story better with what I have now.
This is mostly because I could not be ok with the mathematical problems of travel times in my book. Again, if you’ve been watching my tiktoks, one of my first popular videos was acting this out as a sketch. While I thought I had the paths figured out, there were a few things that kept bothering me about it, and I had to fix them, which did change quite a few things.
Not to mention I have at least another 5 more chapters to add in that I haven’t exactly figured out where they fit in the draft. I know when they happen, but not where they appear in the text. Ah, the problems of spider-web editing.
I also have an official regional map for the first book. The app I used to make it, although, could not handle the full world map to scale, so I’ve been breaking that down and puzzle piecing that back together, which is … frustrating.
I did submit a portion of this book for a literary award, so fingers crossed they like it. I’ll learn in a month.
Fantasy word count: 113,906
Also, the contemporary romance book is at chapter 10, finishing the first act (it’s only got another chapter or so), and coming along nicely. I’ve also got a title for it and a book cover.
Contemp Rom word count: 9,574
Happy writing!!!
Hathaway Johnson Book 