During this year’s month-long writing challenge in November, I decided to put in the work to crank out the sequel to Turtle Heaven, and I managed to succeed again this year.

It was a lot easier this year than in year’s past, and I think it’s largely because I had the story outline completed ahead of time. Certainly, the fact that the outline follows my own life a bit made it easier, but I think that having a pretty structured outline helps with the creativity. In past writing challenges, I’ve stalled primarily because I didn’t really have any characters or plot in mind, and only a minimal amount of setting… and those are pretty much the key ingredients for a novel!

Anyhow, in addition to the writing, I’ve also got the artwork completed for the book, so hopefully I can get this one done in the next several months, and hopefully have another August launch. Very exciting!