Meredith Mansfield, Author

A post I more normally make in January, I suppose. But in this case I’m thinking in terms of very specific goals–just down to this one manuscript.

I’m at or near the half-way point in Become: To Ride the Storm.

And I wrote most of that in the space of about two and a half months–the first part during the month I let the first draft of BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING cool before starting revisions and the rest during the six week or so that that book was in the hands of beta readers.

At the end of this month, the summer break starts–two and a half months. Now, there are plenty of other things I also need to work on during that time. Things around the house and yard, mostly. But my time will be my own to schedule.

So, my goal is to finish this first draft by the first week in September. It’s perhaps a stretch goal, but I’m going to do my best. Then, again, it will have to cool a month, go through a couple of rounds of revision, go out to beta readers, another round of revisions and a polishing edit. But the first step is to get the first draft done.

Mage Storm (or new title to be determined), the start of a brand new series, is already on deck for that cooling period and the time when BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM is in the hands of my critique partners.