Hello, friends!
The first week of April is done and here we are. Last week was the longest year ever! So much going on at work that I barely have time to think. Writing was slow this week, which I’ll talk about. I don’t have many thoughts to go into my intro this week so I guess we’ll get right into it.
Welcome to the 65th installment of Gauthic Times, the newsletter about my writing, my life, and ads for my work.
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I finished revising Project: MG Space Adventure II on Monday. It still weighs in at 30,200 words and 140 pages. I’m pretty happy with it. I found the last two sessions had a lot of tweaking, tightening, and polishing, but that’s to make the ending better. What a fun book!
Because I’ve been reading Project: MG Space Adventure III to G and Pamela, I wanted to finish reading it before jumping into revising for the 2nd draft. Well, that didn’t happen and I decided I couldn’t wait any longer so Thursday and Friday saw me working on that. It’s 9:38 PM on Saturday night as I write this so we’ll see if I do anything on the book tonight.
It’s funny because revising for the 6th draft of Project: MG Space Adventure I took 11 days and revising for the 3rd draft of Project: MG Space Adventure II took 12 days. There was a little more to do in the second book than the first but I’ve already seen what a marked difference there is in revising for the 2nd draft. The first draft is messier. Even though I rewrite a little as I go, that first draft is really more about forward momentum and getting the story down. With Project: MG Space Adventure III being a first draft, I find myself laboring over whether the words I use are right, if the sentence sounds good, if the rhythm of the prose works. There’s a lot of tightening nuts and bolts. I suspect this draft will take me longer than the other books because the book is longer and because there’s more work to do.
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In this spot over on Patreon, Patrons were given a mini comic I did to test an idea. The only way to see it is to become a Patron.
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Today I worked on two ads. Here they are:
This ad was done at 11”x17” and could be shrunk down.
This ad was done for Instagram. I don’t entirely love everything about it but I don’t hate it, either.
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One thing both ads have is the URL to bring people here. The problem is, I need to update this website badly. A big ugh right there. I’ve been working with the same look for the site since around 2011 or so. I’m not sure what to do, though. Still, it’s a location where people can find information about my work.
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