My goal for this writing vacation was to go back to work on Thursday with enough chapters of Elevated ready that I would have a three-week cushion of publishable work as a bulwark against missing a Friday. I've mentioned before how much longer each chapter is taking to write than I originally set aside for writing each week. Eventually, that will either catch up with me or I'll finish the book.
It's looking much more like the latter. I wrote chapters 14-17 during this vacation and published 14 on Friday. That means I have chapters in the can to publish on January 3, 10, & 17, during which I will hopefully be wrapping up chapters 18-21, which conclude Elevated (although they leave plenty of open questions for subsequent books.)
There are still some challenges left in writing the remaining four chapters and a chance that they might have to be split differently than I'm currently planning, but if they behave, the final chapter of Elevated could be published on February 14, 2014, Valentine's Day.
I'm hoping to return to the story of Corvus Gallicus in July or August of 2014 and already feeling out what I'll write and publish in the interim. There are a number of possibilities, which I'll probably discuss here soon. Also, once the entirety of Elevated has been published and the whole story has had a few weeks to settle in my mind, I'll be going back to fix typos, add a bit of polish, and fix inconsistencies (like my mixed-up map of Rio and Clover's blonde hair in the first couple of chapters.)
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