In this week's episode, we discuss eight tips for finishing your first rough draft. You can also get 25% off any STEALTH & SPELLS audiobook at my Payhip store with this coupon code: LEVELING The coupon code will last until October 8th, 2024. You can get the audiobooks here: https://payhip.com/JonathanMoeller/collection/sevenfold-sword-online-audiobooks TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 220 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is September 26th, 2024, and today we're discussing eight tips for finishing your rough draft. We also have a Question of the Week and then close out the episode with a short preview of the audiobook of Stealth and Spells Online: Leveling, as excellently narrated by C.J. McAllister. First, let's have an update on my current writing projects. As of right now, I am 82,000 words into Ghost in the Tombs and if all goes well, I'm hoping to wrap up the rough draft for that next week. I am 24,000 words into Cloak of Illusion, and I'm hoping to have that out in November and I’m also 4,000 words into Orc Hoard, which I am hoping to have out in December, if all goes well, though obviously if anything goes wrong, we're probably going to slip by a month or so there. In audiobook news, the recording for Shield of Darkness (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is finished. That just has to work its way through processing and should be up on the various audiobook sites soon, and we're going to start on the recording for Shield of Conquest next week. The audiobook of Stealth and Spells Online: Leveling is done. That's narrated by CJ McAllister and that's probably going to be a while before it turns up on Audible and the other sites because, as you might remember from previous episodes of the podcast, I changed the name of the series from Sevenfold Sword Online to Stealth and Spells Online and ACX does not like that, so it's going to take a bit for it to get through processing on ACX. In the interim, it is available on my Payhip store and as of today through October 8th you can get 25% off both Stealth and Spells Online audiobooks at my Payhip store with this coupon code: LEVELING and that is LEVELING. I will include that coupon code and a link to the Payhip store in the notes for this show. Remember that coupon code is valid through October 8th, 2024. So act now if you want to get a copy of Stealth and Spells Online: Leveling and listen to it before anyone else does. 00:02:10 Question of the Week Now on to Question of the Week. Question of the Week is designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question: do you reread novels that you have previously read? Now, there are obviously numerous reasons to reread nonfiction- research, for example, or double checking on how to do a certain technical procedure. But there seems to be less of a reason to reread novels, so I opened up this question and people had a lot of thoughts on this. In all the times we've done Question of the Week, this is the most comments we've ever gotten. So rather than read them all, which would take something like 20 minutes, I'm going to read some of the more representative ones here. Our first comment is from Mary who says: yes, a lot. I have lost count of how many times I've read The Lord of the Rings. Joaquim says: Sure, I reread novels. When you announced Ghost Armor, I reread Ghost Exile and Ghost Night. Some things were different from my memory. Shane says: I reread books pretty often. I just got my brother into your books, starting with Frostborn, so we've been reading them at the same time and having daily calls to talk about the exploits of Ridmark and his friends. Surabhi says: when I was little, reading books other than those assigned by schools was an alien thing where I live, because books were expensive and people considered fiction a waste of time. My parents are more liberal, so I requested them to give me the Harry Potter series. I never knew another book for years, rereading Harry Potter twice a year. It was my escape, a little dose of magic and friendship in my lonely, backward society life. I've read Harry Potter like twelve times by now, and I rarely ever reread books except for occasionally going back to favorite scenes. It's been a while since I reread Harry Potter, so maybe I will reread it someday. It was what got me into reading and still has a special place in my heart. My next comment is from Michael, who says: yeah, I reread your books while I'm waiting for you to release a new one, which sometimes backfires when I'm only four books into Ghosts when you release the next one…what to do? And I reread Lord of The Rings and my other favorite fantasy novel every year, too. William says: when I was stuck at Club Med for almost week on a family vacation, I ended up reading the first five Gotrek and Felix novels every day (twice one particular uneventful day) since they were what I had ...
