Writing Updates (And Yes, Writing Updates!)

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And I’m back, only two months after my last update! (I am getting better at this, judging my last update came after nearly four months of radio silence.)

So the big accomplishment this time around was publishing Unworthy! I finished it around the first of February, and that was after much travail and many edits. 😊 Anyway, it’s out in the world now, so if you’d like to check it out, it’s available in print and ebook!

As for book #3 … I blazed through the first edits. It was so much fun, and it was probably the best first edits I’ve had so far. I loved digging into these characters’ personalities, and I’ve been kind of surprised by how interesting and encouraging they are (at least their problems and how they finally come to see them. Not necessarily their personalities …)

Anyway, now I’m on the second edit, and things are … interesting. School and life in general has suddenly become much busier, and most days, I only have about an hour each night to edit. (One hour. At night. To edit.)

Yeah, it’s difficult. Getting through one scene per night is about as good as I can ever hope for, and most nights, I don’t complete that scene. It’s been pretty hard—back in that slogging part of editing—but some days are better the others. (Spring break was helpful.) But the key thing is … keep on marching. And praying, really, really hard. 😊

But I do have exciting news that’s not just about slogging through edits.

I started a new project!!

(Sorry, that had to have multiple exclamation marks because of how exciting it is. Nearly a whole year of only rewriting/editing can feel like a desert.)

If you got my March newsletter (sign up here if you’d like!), you already got a sneak peek of this project. I obviously can’t escape Russia and all my friends there, so we’re back in Moscow with book #6 of the Grace Sufficient series!

I’m really excited about this book, and it feels a lot like home. Presumably, this might be the last in the series, so this plot happens to involve everyone from the prior five books. (Yes, it’s a nightmare juggling everyone, but I love them anyway. And everyone is so old now. I feel like a mom watching her kids grow up and go to college or something.)

So those are all my updates for now – so you talk to me! How is your writing going? Or are you editing, too? Let me know how your projects are going!