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I’m on chapter 17 of the second draft of TRACE. If you’ve read my previous WIPs, you know that I take my original draft, print it out and start an entirely new document. It’s going well. My word goal for draft two is 70,000, and I’m a little over halfway through the draft and at 73% of my goal. That will put this book likely at 80,000-85,000, which is quite typical for one of my books. The exception being Ethereal Bodies, which was close to 94,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
TRACE differs from RAIDEN in more than plot. Vivi and Lilah are two very different characters struggling with very different situations. One can not cookie-cut a character and have a successful series of books. So when I was building Vivi, I looked at her as how would she compliment Lilah. How would two friends, who so deeply helped one another since childhood, fill one another’s needs? That is how I came to create Vivi. From there I added layers, the trauma of what happened to her, her relationship with Trace and what she experiences from being friends with everyone around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, Trace is a complex and difficult character that is either all in or all out. There is no in-between for the character with such intense and extreme personality. You learn a good deal about his past and what molded him to be who he is. He’s a hard person to understand, and yet so damn fierce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Together they really need to make allowances for one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you will enjoy TRACE as much, if not more than RAIDEN. TRACE teasers start next Tuesday! His and Vivi’s book will be out on September 6, 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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