Veiled Space contains multiple Story Worlds, each with their own personality and background. The Jagged Earth is the first to be explored in a published work, but I have notebooks of world-building information. Creating the ground rules for how the world functions on a fundamental level is very important for me to be able to […]
Anniversary The one-year anniversary of Orchids Ablaze rolls around a few months from now. The second book will not be anywhere near ready by then. I can’t tell the story I want to, the way I want to, without taking more time than I originally thought (hoped!). I seem to experience that problem more and […]
The First Book I hope that I’m not that unusual in having second thoughts. The most frustrating second thought is finding better ways to say what I wanted to say in the first book! And finding mistakes in the first book, but that’s relatively easy to fix thanks to the magic of online publishing. Perhaps […]
Groovy As in “back in the groove” at least temporarily. Completed about 1800 words gross working on the Prologue/Chapter 1. I’m not even considering what my net word count might be. For now, it’s enough just to get back to consistently writing. The more I write into it, the more it’s beginning to beef up […]
Taking Care of Business It’s been a busy time lately on all fronts except keeping up with writing. During the past few months, I’ve been on travel for business, family and a few jaunts to events closer to home. As you may have gathered from earlier posts, family is very important to me, so helping […]
As in “I took the plunge”… … and submitted Orchids Ablaze to an online writing contest. I almost didn’t post about it at all! I thought I might wait to see how it turned out first. It was somewhat a leap of faith for me being my first effort, especially because I’m going to have […]