July saw the completion of my first-round edits to The Awakening and saw the manuscript shipped off to my beta readers. As with June, actual word-count writing progress has been slow in July since editing doesn’t always net you a whole lot of new words at the end of the day. I still got in a few, though, giving us:
July, 2013: 1,000 words
I know, I know, as with June it’s a round number. But it’s close enough. With the calendar flipped now to August and with The Awakening in the trusted hands of my beta readers, it’s finally time to return to new fiction again. Book 2 in the Mirynthir Chronicles is tentatively entitled The Emerald Veil, and it will soon be underway. I’m also planning to finalize the cover art for The Awakening in short order, and I’ll post it here as soon as I have it available. Hopefully August should see the return of some substantially larger and substantially less-round monthly word count!