Back in the freezerPOSTED JUL 31, 2011

This is a follow-up to my last post: "Head, Meet Wall" . A few weeks ago, I decided that my second novel needed a do-over, tossing out much of my work for The Day The Rain Came Back. I've since reclaimed a high degree of confidence in the second novel, which now has a very different storyline but is built around similar concepts. It isn't far from re-entering the writing stage - albeit back at chapter 1.

Unfortunately, August is becoming pretty unfavorable to my schedule. I'm preparing to move and also preparing for Caffeine's release, which involves approving/rejecting edits, reading cover-to-cover a few more times (ahhh!) and putting together related materials. There is also a certain literary sensitivity (yeah, I just came up with that) between the two manuscripts... or to sound even geekier, my "optimization" to a given work. Working on DRCB makes me less confident in editing Caffeine. Working on DRCB means I'm no longer in Brandon Dauphin's head, no longer in Caffeine mode. Lest I botch Caffeine in editing I have decided to wait before I go further with DRCB.

So my work from the last three weeks has basically been packed up and shoved in the freezer. I'm bummed by the inability to get to work on it now, but happy that (I pray) I solved the problem DRCB had before, so now it's ready to go when I am. With God's blessing, the first novel will do well and spur me on to write the second, which I should be able to thaw out later this year.

Link to Caffeine Page
Link to The Day The Rain Came Back

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