Second Draft of Book 2 Complete

I finally completed my second draft for Book 2 of the Stormfall Chronicles. It was a longer, more demanding process than I had anticipated, with the book growing from 74,000 words at completion of the first draft, to 105,000 words at completion of the second.

As I had described once before, for me, the purpose of the first draft is to get the skeleton behind the story written down. The purpose behind the second is to insert any missing scenes and get the scene order right. From there, the process of detailed editing - getting all of the words right - can begin.

With any luck, I can be through the third and fourth drafts - and ready to submit to my beta readers - in another four weeks.