Short daily updates between now and the release date of Book 2.
November 20, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 681 (10,065 total)
Yay!
Interlude
I sold a book today. From my locally printed edition, on my locally made and hosted website, with my hand-crafted cover and illustrations, my blood and heart in it.
And the amazing person paid a extra for a signature and a hand-drawn bookmark.
I am going away to have a little cry now.
(づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡
November 18, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 606 (9,384 total)
Notes to myself: Not every single sentence you write needs to be perfect.
Only most of them.
November 17, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 2,066 (8,778 total)
After re-surfacing from the rabbit hole, I actually got some revisions done and Chapter 2 is done… just 100K more words to polish… why am I doing this again?
For my brownie points: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I got this.
November 15 and 16, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 700 (6,712 total)
More progress on Chapter 2! I played with elevenlabs.io to research options for a machine-generated audiobook today and went down a rabbit hole. I didn’t expect much, so I was surprised to find the perfect voice in their default set called “Daniel.”
I added the result to the sample chapter page “The House, Prologue 1—A Visitation” and my YouTube Channel as well as below
Let me know what you think! 🙂
November 14, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 1,261 (6,012 total)
I am a third through Chapter 2.
Yay.
These are all the words I have to spare today.
November 13, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 1,050 (4,571 total)
Prologues 1 and 2 are in final draft, as is Chapter 1—and drum roll—Prologue 1 is now available to read online!
This is still very slow going. It takes me more than an hour to revise a page (around 450 words). At this pace, it will take me 250+ hours to get the manuscript into its final draft. And I have only an hour a day for revision…
That is scary.
Very scary.
November 12, 2024
Status: ‘Final’ revision | Word count: 1,000 (3,521 total)
I’ve started on the final line edits and copy editing. Every paragraph, sentence, and word is being scrutinized and judged.
And it takes ages.
And I love it.
I got this. Right?
#AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersLife #2ndBook #FinalEdits #AlmostDone
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Other news
The first sample chapter of the House is now online!
The first locally printed New Zealand edition of The Fragments is be available on my website. It looks amazing … if I say so myself.
New here? I am New Zealand-based writer, artist and maker Minu Freitag. I have published my first book—The Fragments, an inventive mix of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian fiction—in 2022 and am currently working on the second book in The Spheres Series—The House—due for release in the first half of 2024.
