Chinese New Year has provided me with some down time to do some writing, which I haven’t had much of lately.

I read an article a while back which said that indie authors need to spend about 80% of their time promoting and only 20% of their time writing. Well, over the last two months since the release of “Beauty Rising” I’ve spent well less than 20% on writing. That’s bad, I know.

However, I really want to give promotion all I have.  Plus, my second novel (unpublished) is already finished, so it gave me an excuse not to write much.

But over these last two days, I must admit that it’s been nice to get some writing done. I hadn’t really planned on doing much with my third novel until June, but now I’m over 4000 words into it and it’s very rough outline is starting to take shape.  That’s exciting!

I’ve also realized that one of my ideas is probably not going to fit into this novel, so I split that idea off for a future novel – #5 – since I already have an idea for #4.

Wow, I just need time to write!

But I am glad I got 3200 words on novel 3 done in the last two days. I call it “My Last Great Vietnam Novel.”  We’ll see what happens. Hope to publish it in 2014.

Writing is pretty fun.