dukeenchiladas

Dear Future Duke,

We've made great strides this past week! Not only did we finish the Beta Reader prep for Act 1, but we also did the prep for Act 2! We haven't started on Act 3 yet, but I think we'll just look at a chapter or two a day for the next few days and see where we get. Our best friend gave us a preview at his critiques (we sent him advanced PDFs of both Acts and he's read at least Act 1 twice so far!) and they're pretty reasonable, and my eyes were opened to some possibilities for Ozryn's late draft stage. But I cannot emphasize this enough- we are NOT touching Acts 1 or 2 again UNTIL we finish Act 3's prep.

We also attended another writing workshop, this time for figurative language and we continued the horror story we started last month! I'm pretty excited how it turned out, and we got some nice feedback in-workshop for it, so I think I'll be posting that soon! I won't lie, I might actually try writing out more for that story once I get through Act 3 and am waiting for Beta Reader responses to come in. I might also start outlining Ozryn 2 so I can be prepared for drafting. I know my current plan is to have a 3-year cycle for books I want to write and release, but if I find the time, energy, and money to advance that schedule, then why not do it? Imagine if I actually finished drafting Ozryn 2 this year WHILE working on the edits and release of Ozryn 1, then next year I could at least edit (and maybe release) Ozryn 2 while outlining (and maybe drafting) Ozryn 3!

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this plan goes for Ozryn 1 first!

Sincerely,
Past Duke