Working on a multi-book series with four of them in process at the same time I find it critical to have a plan. There’s no better way that I’ve found to keep things sorted and focus my time where it most needs to be. As a project manager this should be pretty easy for me but I am finding it to be very difficult due to my ignorance about publishing and the editing process.
I don’t know how long a lot of things are going to take.
Estimate draft time is fairly easy. I know I average around 1,000 words an hour for fresh content. That includes on the fly research, spot editing and re-reading for context and vocabulary. I know about how long each book should be. A little math computes these times nicely.
But how long will it take me to do my second edits? At the moment it looks like I will be doing my own development edits and possibly copy edits as well. I know that’s not ideal but financial reality is a thing. How long will those edits take? I have only the fluffiest target clouds at this point.
Taking the later stage estimates with a grain of salt (or a tablespoon of it, we’ll find out later), here’s the summary of where I am and where I hope to be getting:
Ages of the Seed 
Four at the SAME time? Bravo! 🙂
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It was a manageable 2, then NaNoWriMo happened and 2 more drafts appeared. On the plus side with this many open projects there’s almost always something interesting to work on. heh
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What’s NaNoWriMo?
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National Novel Writing Month. It’s an annual challenge each November to draft a new 50,000 word novel. This was the first time I participated and I recommend giving it a go. It really helped to keep my focus on new content.
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Wow! 50,000 words? Sounds super challenging. Thank you for the information. I’ll check it out.
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Here’s the site: http://nanowrimo.org/
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Thank you!
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Way to keep a handle on things. I think working on four books at the same time would explode my brain.
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It’s threatening to do that with me. 😉
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