Midpoint!

A novel’s midpoint occurs between Middle Build 1 and Middle Build 2, or at the halfway in the overall Middle Build. I shared my all-is-lost moment with my SHEG (editing group) last night. It went over very well. I’m officially at my novel’s midpoint!

This is technically the 11^th draft, however, it’s the first rewrite draft, so I feel I’m rediscovering this story as I move through. I added a completely new Beginning Hook and am rewriting the Middle Build 1 and Middle Build 2 to include the new story threads introduced in the BH. After the crushing events of the all-is-lost moment to close down MB1, I’m now writing a very short Interlude in the 3^rd Person before returning to Clay’s POV to kick off the MB2 chapters. It’s coming along very well and I should be done with this key draft mid-June. 

After that, the plan is to do a prose pass (12^th draft) incorporating all the feedback from my editing group, and then we’ll finally be ready to share this story with Beta readers! I have a list of readers interested in seeing about the adventures of my golem detective but am always open to adding more.

I’ll take the feedback from the Beta readers and do a final prose pass for draft #13 and then pass this to my editor. That’s the plan to finish THE BLUE GOLEM.

And then I’m doing a light editing pass on my series THE ADVENTURES OF THE SKY PIRATE, which I hope to publish first to give readers of TBG a back-catalog to dive into. This is the busiest year for me yet, but the most productive.