Hello one and all… Time for another Adamsville update in which… I don’t have much new to report! Honestly you guys this is the dead zone. I actually have a bit of withdrawal going on. I got so used to my life being consumed by producing this book that having to sort of wait this all out is just so odd to me now. It was nice to have a few months off to rest a bit more, but I have stayed pretty busy between commissions and working on the project I am currently Kickstarting: THE DRAGON BOOK AND OTHER STORIES.
At the moment I am currenly waiting to see what one publisher wants to do with the book and looking to see if there are any other avenues for me outside of self-publishing. I want to talk much more about everything, but I feel like that’s a more appropriate conversation once it’s all played itself out. The hard part is that it really could take months more for me to hear something back, or I could get an e-mail this afternoon. I have no idea. I’ve been told though that a fast response is generally a negative one, so maybe I should be thankful at this point?! This sort of suspense can kill a man! Lol.
I decided what’s best is to throw myself full on into writing the second book and just keep plowing along. No matter what I want to finish this series and not fall too far behind my internal goals of finishing each volume within a year and half of each other.
Writing has gone slowly on book 2. When I made the decision to make this series a trilogy (orginally I thought it could go on much longer) it meant speeding up certain parts of the storyline and character develoment. Trying to make that happen without it feeling forced was hard, but I think I pushed through that wall finally and things are moving along well. The book centers itself around that most time endured tradition of the school dance and getting all of that right has been difficult. I have also been watching a lot of dance movies like this one:
and this one:
No judgies on the movies. I gotta do what I gotta do to get my research on. Mostly these were the ones on Netflix so I watched them. But what it reminded me of is just how insanely crazy the whole dance experience is for kids. So much is wrapped up in them. I’m really looking forward to having fun with that dynamic.
As many of you know I am pretty big process junkie. I find a lot of efficiency comes from having a solid process in place. As I have been writing this book my current process is actually a pretty easy one. I set a timer and write for 30 minutes, bascially every day. I can get a lot done in that amount of time and with all of the other things I am juggling right now that is about all I can take on. My hope is one way or another to finish the script, be penciling pages and making the next book by July, whether I know what is happening with a publisher or not. We’ll see what happens there. I’m so anxious to be back to making this book though.