Dane Mallahan

Well another week has come and gone.  

I feel less successful this week, but as I talked about last week, pushing myself too hard is part of my personality, and I need to take breaks at some point.

I have also been feeling like this task of trying to write and publish my first book is wearing on me.  I have not been able to write anything new or exciting – aside from developing ideas – in the past few months.  So, I decided that this week I was going to take a more relaxed approach to things.

I finished editing spelling and grammar mistakes on book one of Path of The Chosen on Monday, which was the one thing I had intended to do before I took a side track from working on that.  Tuesday I went to visit some family and took a break from writing and thinking about the books and stories I have in my head.

Then on Wednesday I got to work on something I have been thinking about and developing for a while.  A new “series” if you will, focusing on a small team of scientists and their support crew as they search for life and other resources on different and unknown planets.  I am tentatively calling it “Away Team”.  I have thought this would be a fun series to try and develop into a comic book, but as I am a new writer and have little to no network, that might take some time.  But, I have been thinking that I want to turn it into an audio book type thing, releasing issues maybe once a month or every other month so I can get some people interested in what I am writing.  So, we will see how that goes.

I finished issue one, at about 16 handwritten pages, and am going to try and finish typing it up today or tomorrow.  I need to get a new microphone but will be trying to upload that…somewhere, when I get a chance.

It felt amazing to be able to work on something new and different, and to work on a story from beginning to end over the course of a few days.  I think taking the time out to work on these issues periodically will help me stay on track as I delve into the larger tasks of finishing my book and moving on in the series.

One last note, I have not had time to work on my most recent short story, New Life +, but I have decided on where I will be posting it once it is finished.  I have heard of a website called Wattpad that is a great source for writers to display their works and for readers to check them out.  Once I finish polishing the story I will be posting it there and will update my site with a link.

Look out for that next week.

Next week I plan on diving back into the Path book and working on punching up some of the text and polishing it for a final draft.  I hope this will be the last one!

Thanks for reading and I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Cheers,

Dane