Realizing that I have a metric ton of words to write just to get through the mainline ideas bouncing around in my head (around 2.7 million words just in the novels themselves, plus all of the planning and summary work) I decided to make an actual plan for how I’m going to get through the Ansgari Civil War series.

I’ve also started a plan for the Novel Web, but that is going to take some tweaking.

I’ve started a local wiki to help consistency check the works and make sure I don’t go off the rails.

I need to finish the rewrite of Hydra, which will be another 70,000 words, the 5 more books in the series at a projected 100k each. Plus 3 companion novels that will dovetail into the series finale: 60k each for another 180k. Three books in the Andivar series for another 300k total.

And then the big work begins. 28 novels in the Web, starting with a standalone and then diverging into the  6 strands of Interconnected but independent series. The plan, currently, is to write all of those novels from a singular POV, which will cut the work down to approximately 60k words each for a grand total of about 1.7 million words.

It’s daunting for me to write the numbers down and realize how much I’ve got to do. I am bolstered by the fact that I was able to do about 60k words for NanoWrimo a couple of years ago. Even if I worked at about 50% of that pace, that’s only about 5 years of actual writing. Plus the planning, summary and editing phases.

Hey, all done by my 50th birthday (9 1/2 years) would be a reasonable goal 🤣🤣