So in the end I decided to stick with Lindsay.  I imagine most people will get past the gender thing.  Having done that and figured on the elements of a plot I wrote about 8 pages of chapter 1.  I feel accomplished.

Been thinking a lot about Use'ara lately - over the past few days I guess... and so have been trying to decide exactly what elements to inculde and what to leave out.  There's no doubt it's evolving - I knew it would if I left it to stew for long enough - rather like a good cup of tea really... 

So anyway, now I'm looking for a name for the main male 'human' character.  I'm stuck on Lindsay, which is a Scotish name and actually unisex though most often these days used for females.  But I can't get past that being the name that 'he's' put in my head for himself.  LOL

But I think I finally realised what it is about Prophesy of Angels that isn't working. There are too many characters taking a major role. This is after writing over 100,000 words... (I'm not putting in the real number, because it's kind of scary), yeah that surprised me too, but it was obviously running too long anyway. I don't mind writing a long novel, but that's kind of ridiculous.

So it needs reworking. First thing to do is reduce the main characters to a workable number, then figure out what holes that leaves in the outline. In other words... LOL... another complete rewrite. Not that it will hurt to do that... well maybe a little it needs to be done. *sighs* If only I could get someone to /pay/ me to do it.

Working on a Celtic New year of course...

Right now I have several projects on the go:

• Forbidden
• Star of the Morning
• If - As We Try
• Precious
• Prophesy of Angels
• Useara
• Project L

At least two of those are totally original, and my immediate goal, at least one of the two I'm concentrating on, is to get Prophesy finished to a point where I can start marketing it.  It's already pretty much in first draft form, so I have a lot to go on.

Of course this doesn't mean that the other fiction is not going to progress, far from it.  I need something to provide relief from endless redrafting... so those waiting for updates on the Medjai stuff and UC stuff, fear not.

 

 

It's only a reader's letter, and it's been edited (have yet to compare the two, been busy with the laptop), but it's a start, and you have to start somewhere, don't you?

Yay!

 

 

Here is a blog community for you to play with snippets of writing from various different kinds of prompts.

Writer's Block

We would like to get as many people involved as possible in this wacky fun.

 

 

If you're wondering where it went, I've not stopped writing, I was just doing more research and making sure that the plot made sense and tied up all the ends.  I'm still working on it, but you can expect to see me working on chapter 2 pretty soon.

 

 

Okay, so I started the story, the first (short) chapter is written, and just needs to be proof read.  I do have /one/ small problem though... and that's the matter of the rating.  I don't like rating anything above an R, but I think I might have to with this.

I might ask for a second opinion.

 

 

Which was about where I expected to be at this point... perhaps a tiny bit less, but that's mostly because I had to 'organise' the chaos of the final battle sequence, and even after that it still has a life of its own, with elements moving about.  The movement however makes perfect sense so I'm not too worried about it. My main concern right now is keeping up the momentum... being able to switch between the people in the battle without losing the urgent, forward drive of it.

So we'll see how it goes today.  Plan to finish it so that it can be posted with the Wednesday update.  Got to love self imposed deadlines.

 

 

... the beginning of the end.

Or at the very least the end of Angel of the Heart, because today I start work on the final chapter of that story.  Of course the story doesn't exactly end there... but this part of the journey does.

It's a funny old feeling and one that I remember from when I wrote the final chapter of Power Is, all those many years ago.  Accomplishment and happiness, yes, but it's mixed with a kind of sadness to let go of the characters and events in a story... and a kind of fear to send them out into the world, knowing that they're  a complete little entity in and of itself.

So, I'm writing the ending of Angel of the Heart, and at the same time, in the back of my mind, I'm wondering how it all moves forward into Star of the Morning... and trying to count those loose ends that will remain behind (deliberately) at the end of Angel, so that they can tie the bow on Star.

These are my rambling thoughts as I sit at my computer this morning...