Is that progress I see?

On something that totally isn't what I should be working on, why yes. And no, before you say anything, it isn't a video game either. I mean actual progress on an actual piece of writing that I actually someday might finish. Let me explain.

So when I originally wrote the draft of what would eventually turn into 'Witch Bloom' I always had the idea in mind that it was a series. And a series it still shall be if I can ever stop procrastinating and actually work (and publish the first one but did you not catch that bit about procrastinating?) In fact after I wrote the first draft of book one I totally went on vacation for a week and then decided, nope screw that, and started writing a book two. I got fifty (that's progress for me ok) pages into book two when I went back and started rewriting book one. And once I rewrote book one and I do mean rewrote because I changed so much of it, I decided maybe I'd change my ideas about book two.

I figure 'Witch Bloom' is sort of a coming of age story except make the characters older and a lot more jaded (it's a pun see? Haha. And I hate puns.) As such it sort of stays in one area for the whole time. And that got boring so I decided book two, road book! Awww yeah, insert 80s montage! Well I ran with that idea (I need to stop it with the bad jokes like, now) and laid out fifty pages of plot and story and ideas and all sorts of fun things. And I just decided to kill all of it. I'd had ideas of what to change and whatnot but I decided tonight basically to just kill it all. I'd take the tiny baby pieces of what I liked and maybe rehash them into the current version but I'd start a completely new version from scratch instead of hacking and slashing what I had previously written.

In an odd spurt of productivity, I actually started writing said new sequel beginning. Unfortunately, it is probably another form of procrastination to not add in stupid grammar fixes to the first book. I do however enjoy writing new stuff more than I like editing old things. And there is something sort of fun about taking fifty pages and countless hours of working and just saying, nope! Not using you! Wait, no. It's the opposite of that. It's completely the opposite of that. But I didn't like the direction I was heading in and if I don't like it then I won't read it and if I won't read it then how can I expect anyone else to want to read it?



Ok so maybe I'm justifying it in my head but hey, at least I got work on a new new one done, right? Right?