SD Part Fourteen

After I stepped away from writing after starting development for this book, I knew I would come back to when I was ready. In the beginning of 2024, I stepped back into writing and started working on part 2 of my Elwin two-part story. Part 1 took 6 months and came out to 24k words back in 2019. Part 2 took 8 months and came out to 61k words.

The next story in the timeline is Windweaver. Now that I have canon information for the past, I feel more confident going into this story. I had previously stopped writing partway through chapter 5 and that is why I have picked the story back up.

My life has changed a lot since 2020 and my writing process has too. I get most of my writing done now during lunch at work and at the bar on Saturday nights when I spend up to 4 hours hanging out. The last part of chapter 5 left to write is the first complex fight scene since chapter 1.

I never had a concrete idea who Lyra would be fighting, only that she could show off her prowess against an overwhelming force that puts her in a position to get hurt by being reckless. The enemy is now a swarm of undead wildlife creatures controlled by a dark mage necromancer who has an undead bear and its cub as bodyguards.

I may turn the fight against the necromancer its own chapter or keep it together, I have not decided yet. I did write out a 37 chapter base outline but who knows how it will go now. I am confident I can get at least 100k words by the end of this book. writing the 61k words for the last story gave me a confidence boost.