So May went well. A month went well for once!
After getting back on the meds that I tried to stop taking again, I have determined that yep, if I want to be productive at all, I’m stuck with them. Which hey, it’s nice to have the option at least.
I managed to get SIX chapters of The DOOM Chronicles out in May. I can’t even remember the last time I wrote and released that many chapters in the span of a single month. I’m hoping that’s the new normal, and I can finally start making some REAL progress on my stories.
I also want to say that a significant part of the reason I began making progress was because I made an executive decision. How I’ve been writing goes like this: Plan out the chapters of the story, write the chapters. The problem with this is that I’ve been getting long-winded as I get older. Whereas before I struggled to break 2,000 words, now I struggle to keep it under 5,000, based off the same amount of intended material. So I finally decided to change it. Now, all my chapters are going to aim for 3,000 words. Once I start approaching the 3,000 word mark, I begin looking for the first natural scene break to end the chapter. Obviously it’s working, because that’s what helped allow me to get out half a dozen chapters in a month.
As for the plan for June? It’s largely the same. I am intending to wrap up Part Two of Episode Three of DOOM this month. It should be doable. And once it’s done, I’m diving right back into The Will To Live. That’s about it.