I needed a break from Clouds of Venus. Line-editing that thing was getting tedious, and I was having a hard time staying focused. So I decided to take a couple of days--or three--and work on the outline for book 4 of the Wheel of Fire series, which I'm calling Dying Breeds.
My preliminary outline--I've got one for each of the eight books in the series--was about 1800 words. My goal for each book is to have an outline of at least 8000 words. That's how I know I have enough material for a novel. So I had some work to do.
The outline for Dying Breeds currently stands at 5295 words. I'm getting there. I'm adding in some gut-wrenching stuff that wasn't there before, too, and I think it'll help give the book more of an emotional punch.
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