I know that I promised that the next chapter would be stuffed full of everything, but I had to split it into two chapters instead. Otherwise, it would have been bloated. Chapter 24-Three Ring Circus is in the process of being written, and I hope to have that ready to go in a few days. The current installment was challenging for me to write. I'm not sure if other authors experience this, but I had difficulty getting the emotions just right for the balance that I wanted to portray. I am happy with how it came out, although it took a while to pull together. Still, this offering is much faster than what I've been producing over the past couple of months, and I intend to do my best to keep up the trend.
What I find the most time consuming is the editing. I do my own, and it takes multiple readings before I'm satisfied with the final product. Adding to that (for Malachar in particular), my chapters are quite lengthy by design, all of which are a minimum of 15k words, I believe. I'm loathed to use someone else, but please don't ask me why because I do not know-a personal peccadillo perhaps. I simply like to do it. One secret I'll share is that my final edit is often after I read it posted on SOL. For some strange reason, it reads better to me on this site than it does on Microsoft WORD, and I often catch a minor mistake or two that I missed. :D
I hope everyone who is following along with me enjoys the latest ramblings of my feeble mind.
Cheers!
Chris