For the next two months I'm a full time writer...

At the start of this year I gave up my full-time job to become a freelance software developer and writer - the idea being to interleave paid programming gigs with (for now at least) less well paid writing months.

We'll see how that works out. But I do now have September and October free to do some serious writing, which is a wonderful prospect indeed. Can't wait to see how much progress I can make.

For the record, here's what I plan to tackle:

• Publish Hyrn (the Cloven Land prequel novella) - pretty much ready to go
• Publish Wyrm Lord, book 2 in the Cloven Land trilogy - currently being edited
• Complete The Clockwork War (Engn II) - currently about 75K words written, maybe 15K to go
• Write at least three of the short story ideas buzzing around in my head
• Make a good start on Witch King (book 3 in the Cloven Land trilogy) - currently 1 chapter is written

I's also like to spend some time doing some serious future novel planning. Once Cloven Land is complete, that will be an entire indie-published fantasy trilogy out there. The Engn books are, as regular readers will know, published by a small publisher (December House). Now I just need to complete the set and have the full agent/major publisher deal. Easier said than done, of course, but that's where I want to get to. So I need to sit down and decide which of my hundred odd novel ideas I want to invest a year or so of my life in.

Wish me luck. The two months writing starts now...