A list written by: Lee Sonogan
If I have not mention before, I have written a journal. But I stopped about 8 months ago. Saying that I did do it for most of last year. In my journal I use it to organise my life and projects I am working on plus extra thoughts about stuff on a particular day. Having many entries specifically talking about the creating process of my first book, the following list will be the day and excerpt of what I said.
This journal begins talking about Power From Within: Vol 1 – Birth of a Utopia in the Day 13 written entry..
Day 13 18/02/17
- Power From Within Vol 1: Birth of a Utopia – 96 pages
- Aver 250-340 words per page
Day 15 20/02/2017
- Power From Within: Vol 1 (95%?) 105 pages, 26,697
Day 16 21/02/2017
- Power From Within 28,430 words 115 pages
- Extend with description
- Chapter 9: Vigilantism (Extend hostage situation)
- Chapter 14: Look for ways to extend
- Chapter 15: Birth of an alliance – War scenes
- Chapter 19 Beginning of the end (Forsaken Desert – Final stand extend)
- Chapter 20: Ending should be longer
Day 17 23/02/17
- Power From Within: Vol 1 29,489 words 118 pages
Day 18 24/02/17
- Power From Within: Vol 1 – 30,141 words, 120 pages
- Chapter 6: EST 40 words
- Chapter 8: EST 150 words
- Chapter 13: EST 50 words
- Chapter 15: EST 100 words
- Chapter 16: EST 80 words
- Chapter 17: EST 40 words
- Chapter 18: EST 60 words
- 520 EST words to go
Day 19 25/02/17
- Finished novella today
- 30,606 words
- Sent it off to auntie Sheryl for proofreading
Day 99 1/10/2017
- Finally got Power From Within: Vol 1 from auntie
- She has been busy
- Gives me a list of 8 grammar issues out through the novella
Day 100 3/10/2017
- My wireless keyboard is stuffed, no writing tonight
Day 104 9/10/2017
- Some work on Power From Within: vol 1
- Need to read and edit it more
Day 116 11/11/2017
- Editing PFT Vol; 1
Day 117 13/11/2017
- Another Keyboard is dead…
Day 119 20/11/2017
- Did more on Power From Within
- Day 121 25/11/2017
- More editing tonight
- My finger is pissing me off!
Day 122 5/12/2017
- Self published on amazon – Final word count of 34,081 words
- Includes more than 30 countrys
- e-book and paperback have different sizes so both have a different amount of pages
- Push hard to try to sell it
- Need someone and everyone to see it
- Learnt a lot about grammar and writing doing this
There you have it, documented progress of my first book. A first hand look into what I was doing before this book was published. As always, there are links below with the heading saying Here is/are some links to my book for sale: