I thought I'd give a little update.
Basically, I took the majority of the summer off. I spent it with family and friends, moved a daughter to a new apartment, spent time lounging around and so forth. I wrote when I felt the urge - but it wasn't always writing on current projects and it wasn't always anything good.
For those who don't know, I go through a bit of a process when actually writing. Typically, I type off anywhere from four to twenty pages at once (sometimes even more, when I can fully concentrate). When my concentration gets broken (by the wife, an alarm telling me its time to do something or etc.), I save everything and put it away. Then, I let it percolate in my brain for a day or so.
The next time I get the urge, I come back and READ WHAT I PREVIOUSLY WROTE. I'm usually unhappy with it and spend a bit of time tweaking things, changing logical fallacies I saw through during the percolation and so on. Occasionally, I'll be so disgusted by what I wrote that I scrap it (by cut and pasting it to a different document and saving the document in case I want to revisit a theme I was focused on).
Sometimes, I just start reading from the beginning to make sure I've not really awful changes in tone.
I'm working on the sixteenth chapter of Runesward, Tome 2. I wrote about twelve pages yesterday. I hate all of them. I like the points but the way I wrote them is choppy - and it's going to bother my OCD until I re-write the thing. I absolutely like (and, more importantly, need) the points I made, I just don't like the way I wrote them. Worse, there is a definite end goal of the chapter that I didn't even START to address in those twelve pages. I could leave what I have written and start a new chapter - but this chapter doesn't move the plot along at all; it mostly clarifies why certain events occurred in the previous chapter.
Anyway, that's a small look into my mind and my processes. Tome 2 is looking to come in somewhere around between 25 and 30 chapters (just a ball park) so I have a lot of writing to do. I'll try to keep everyone much more informed without giving away any salient plot points.
-KG