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In which we ramble on.
And by we, I mean me.

Will's Break: Three Months Down

3/30/2021

23 Comments

 
I've been gone for three months, and I only gave you two reports on what I was doing, so that means I owe you a final report on what I've been doing!

Spoiler Alert: the answer is "not much."

But before that, just to let you know, Cradle: Path of Gold (the second collection of books, so volumes 4-6) is FREE today! And maybe for a couple of days, I don't know. But if you're halfway through the series and you want to pick up three Kindle books for free,  now's the time!

Of course, these books are always free to listen on Audible Plus, but I know some people are like me and prefer to read with their eyes rather than their ears.

Anyway, on to what I've been doing...

I took a week and stayed in a cabin writing for fun, as I suggested I would last time. I enjoyed it, but I didn't come away with a BIG IDEA or half a book or something, like I was kind of hoping.

Instead, I came out with a bunch of little ideas. Some of them might crawl their way to you at some point, but for the most part they were just a way to stretch my writin' muscles.

I did a lot of reading this last week or two--mostly a week--because I finally started on The Wandering Inn. And there is, uh, there is a LOT of it. I've read two million (ish) words in the last week (ish) and I'm not even at the halfway mark yet. Plus it's ongoing.

I might end up recommending it, but I'm told the best is yet to come, and I want to at least catch up before I offer my humble opinion.

Let's see, what else? I got my sister started on Stardew Valley after years of attempts on my part, and now she's losing sleep to make sure her flowers make perfect rows down to her crops.

It's been weird coming back, because I used to have more work to do. I had a lot to do other than just write, and now most of those non-writing tasks have been taken over by members of The Team, so I'm feeling kind of superfluous right now.

Hey, more time for writing!

​-Will
23 Comments
Clemente
3/30/2021 11:01:30 am

Good to hear from you Will! glad you're enjoying Wandering Inn, its definitely its own flavor of story. Can't wait for the release stream!

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Paxtor
3/30/2021 11:06:34 am

Glad to hear you enjoyed your break, you deserved it!

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Althane
3/30/2021 11:07:35 am

Welcome back! And enjoy The Wandering Inn, I enjoyed it back when I read it. I just fell off the updates (as with most of my web stuff) back in March when I moved to WFH. Not sure why, but my feedly log is thousands long, so... that'll be something to go through. At some point.

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Eric Florey
3/30/2021 11:29:45 am

Welcome back Will 😁

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Clint
3/30/2021 11:42:32 am

Cheers and celebrations for you on your vacation. I'm glad you're not letting yourself burn out or anything.

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Bridget
3/30/2021 11:50:19 am

I just started stardew, it's great. I think I forget to blink while I play. I unintentionally bombed my crops while trying to harvest

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Adam
3/30/2021 02:14:21 pm

I'm glad you enjoyed your break! Can I ask how we submit questions for the stream?

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Decno
3/30/2021 03:01:07 pm

You won't regret reading The Wandering Inn. It is amazing!!!

Not as good as Cradle though!

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Elliot
3/30/2021 05:43:31 pm

Welcome back! Hope you do your stream for the book release. Maybe some Subnautica (I FINALLY got it after I first saw it on your stream)?

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Angella
3/31/2021 03:05:25 am

Welcome back!! Boy I was surprised by all these announcements. I was like “It was just a month since I read your last post right!?!?” Then some giggling and hyperventilating. Seriously dude. You made my day. I don’t how I’m supposed to sleep now.

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André van Wyck link
3/31/2021 04:11:16 am

Super jealous of your vacation / writer's retreat! Thanks so much for the give-away of Path of Gold. Now I can finally free up some space in my Kindle Unlimited roster (I've been flat-out refusing to return any of your books). Looking forward to the next installment!

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Drake
3/31/2021 04:32:55 am

If i had one question answered, it would be how the pricing of the books are made. It dosnt seem page related. If you take a look on the current amazon, uncrowned is more expensive then wintersteel (the book with the most content/pages), while bloodline is close to wintersteel with the price but not with the page count.
Does it have to do with the time spend to write those then?

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Stephen
3/31/2021 05:39:56 am

Glad your back and that you had a great vacation!

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Deadnettle
3/31/2021 07:03:44 am

Good to have you back Will, I hope your vacation gave you a good chance to rest, relax and fight off all those evil clones I've been unleashing into the wild.

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Samantha
3/31/2021 08:45:25 am

If you're sister likes organizing things to her liking, she might also like Littlewood. You can move the whole village around and even make hills or lakes.

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Lloyd A Achey
3/31/2021 04:20:05 pm

TWI is fantastic. Pirate grinds out more words than I can fathom and the writing and storylines get so much richer as the series progresses.

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Devin link
3/31/2021 08:53:14 pm

You write really, really good books, and on such a tight schedule. I've just finished Winter steel and I'm surprised to see another coming so soon.

I'm impressed, and so looking forward to more!

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Sam
3/31/2021 09:17:08 pm

Soon will, we'll remove the need to physically type out the words you write while writing by hiring somebody for that.

Then we'll remove the need for you to render your thoughts into words before having someone else type them.

Eventually, The Team will simply take your distilled thoughts and pass them around until a book is made from them.

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bill warrilow
4/1/2021 02:02:05 am

first of April - and Bloodline is on preorder for delivery on 6/4/21?!?!?!

i so hope this isnt an April Fools Day sort of thing.....

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Elliot Dweck
4/1/2021 09:08:11 am

Every April 1st I always check back here to see if Will put something. That, in turn, reminds me of his "release schedule" from a prank a few years back. Turns out Will is only 7 months behind schedule on Cradle. So I guess its pretty accurate. Looking forward to "I Reincarnated into an Online Game as a Healer" and maybe we'll get that Travelers Gate series about the dolls. One can dream.

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nate
4/1/2021 09:49:31 am

can we get hardbacks of the books?

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Tony
4/1/2021 11:28:42 pm

You spoil us Will! Excited for the next installment!

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Dale
4/29/2021 09:25:33 am

Will you give us a Wandering Inn update? Have you kept reading it?

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