Weekly rewriting/revision grind: part II

Here are my weekly rewriting/revision projects:

1)  Kepler Falling.  I've been rewriting this manuscript for a while.  I don't think I'll have it done until spring 2018.  The damn thing is taking much longer than I anticipated.  Life got in the way of my writing, unfortunately.  On the bright side, I think about 60% complete with the current rewrite.  This is the manuscript's third draft....

2)  Nordic Sun.  I've been taking this to my local writers group, Writers Under the Arch.  I've been using their feedback to revise the novella.  Nordic Sun is undergoing its second revision.  I hope to have this completed by March 2018....

3)  I've shelved Eternity's Edge writing until I get done with the Kepler Falling rewrite.  That project has been backlog to the rest of 2018...

Kepler Falling is a sci-fi novel where a woman astrophysicist must make hard choices concerning a girl she loves on a sabotaged, sub-light interstellar colonization effort to a distant star system.  The choices the main character makes determines the outcome of the novel. 

Eternity's Edge is the sequel to Kepler Falling.  This time, the story is told from the prospective of the child who was saved aboard the Johannes Kepler.  Now an adult, she journey's to the edge of the universe with immortal descendants of survivors who settled Proxima Centauri aboard the FTL vessel, the Beersheba.  With their Yahweh leaders, the humans interact with a race of giant, intelligent praying mantises, who react to their presence.

Nordic Sun is a hard sci-fi novella about a Scandinavian interstellar expedition that finds out the terrestrial satellite they chose to colonization has already been claimed by another intelligent race who terraformed the world to their needs.  Hilarity and misunderstanding ensues.   

Monthly rewriting/revision grind...

I started blogging on Linkedin.com about my weekly rewriting/revisions/writing projects on my laptop.  Here's where I'm currently at this month:

1)  Kepler Falling:  I have about 200 pages worth of rewriting done.  I thought I could get done by New Years Day 2018.  That won't happen.  I'll be lucky if I finish up by my birthday in March 2018.

2)  Eternity's Edge:  I have about 25,000 words.  I need another 25,000 words for a manuscript.  I'd like to have the rough draft done by June 2018.

3)  Nordic Sun:  I'm on the eighth week of 23 weeks worth of critiques for WUTA.  This will keep me going until March 2018.

4)  Other Novellas/Short Stories:  Those projects will take the WUTA critique group until the end of October 2018 to get through with critiquing and revising/editing....

Blake Wood Walker