Derick W J Tan

Trying to finish Project M.I.G.H.T. before I enter National Service is going to be quite a rush and most likely not possible without the quality of the Specimen Four and Five being affected.

I’m still not used to work life because whenever I get home, I’m just too tired to sit down and let the entire story, characters, and plot elements spread out in my head and then start to write. I can’t sustain that level of concentration and I just end up writing nonsense if I force myself to write.

The Chapter Outline is done but it’s doing little to help because of the problem I mentioned above.

The only time I really have to write now is during the weekends which really isn’t much so at the very most I can churn out three chapters per week, which is a drastic drop in productivity. I’ll have to get used to work life eventually of course but I doubt it’ll happen during this internship since I only have a month and a half left. Once I get used to it, my internship would probably be over and I’ll lose the adaptation.

So right now, writing during weekends seem to be the only solution to this problem. Specimen Three: Geralt will see a drop in word count again like how there was a drop from Specimen One to Specimen Two. I am aiming for a novella length (45,000 words+) as opposed to the length of an epic novel because the ideas that I have for a Romance/Science-fiction genre mix is really quite limited.

Once I’m done with Project M.I.G.H.T. and move on to Fantasy/Science-Fiction however… heh.

As of now, I’m going to try and write during the weekdays and hopefully can get perhaps five chapters out per week. Once I’m done with the first draft, the second draft should be less taxing depending on how well draft 1 turned out. But I’m really not going try and force myself too much during this internship period because honestly speaking, Specimen Three is not looking good at all right now.

Once internship is over, I’ll have roughly two months where I can fervently write every single day at 100%.

Specimen Three: Geralt has suffered a 3 months delay because of my internship so that’s going to push everything further, but I’ll try my best to catch up during that two months after my internship =)

- Derick