Oh life. How unexpected you are in ruining all my plans. Or not.
Hello, all. Those of you lingering few that have read my books and thought to yourselves... I wonder what Kate is up to these days, since she hasn't written a single entry in a year. A freaking year.
Well, Kate has been busy. Not writing. Oh no! She's been homeschooling her children, because of Corona and school closures. So unfortunately, Universis has taken a back-burner to that mess. But I did brush it off and look it over and the half of the book that IS written is stuff I like. So I'll keep it. There was a bunch of stuff I didn't like, and I cut it all out and started over. I wrote more stuff that fit better, and now I'm back up to half and spilling over into finishing. Yes, I can see the end in sight friends. I'm not sure what sort of ending it will be, but it will be the END. Because writing a series is hard, y'all.
Not a fan, if I'm going to be honest. The planning and the designing and the note taking so I don't mess everything up is exhausting. On the other hand, watching these characters learn and grow over the past 10 years has been some of the best work of my life. I will MISS them so much: Nikka, Luka, Zyander, Alea, Surgal, Alys, and the Vixen. They've been such good friends to me, and I hope they go on to live good lives when I'm not there chronicling them. I'll guess we'll see what the chances are by the time the book ends, huh?
I've got about 40k words left, but as long as I stick to my goal of 1000 words per day, I should finish this sucker up (barring sickness or major life events) in a couple of months. So exciting!
In the meantime, I've been planning what I'll do next, and I think it will be very different. It's only alive in Scrivener for now, because I'm not writing another word that isn't about the Five Tribes.
Hope all is well with you and your families,
Kate:)
