I finally finished the first draft of my fantasy novel and got some feedback from my primary alpha reader. Based on his feedback, I’m doing a substantial rework of the draft. I’m still not sure if I’m going to just put it up on Monday Fiction or if I will go down the self-publishing road. I want to get this done one way or the other.

I also managed to finish up the third installment of my Irregulars series.

My alpha brought to my attention that I do better work when I’m writing from a first-person perspective. I think it’s because I generally think of my stories surrounding one character. It’s easy for me to get into that one character’s headspace. It was what made writing third-person for my fantasy novel so challenging. Expect my next few “new” writing projects to be in first-person for the time being.

Other writing projects I’m working on this year:

Irregulars 4 – The general outline is finished and a good deal of the original script was done because I thought this was going to be Irregulars 3.

Purgatory 1 – From my current sketch/outline this is going to be a fantasy series heavily influenced by the LitRPG principle of nobody to somebody as well as some light isekai influences.

Avalon – I pulled the Avalon stories page down. If I get substantial work done on my other three projects, I’m going to do a massive rework of that series – including a dual first-person storytelling.

I have other ideas written down and “in the bank” as it were. But I’ve learned that I need to focus my efforts. I also need to have a “new” project to keep my creativity going. Even if it’s just sketching it out.