As you can imagine there's a lot going on in my writing world.
I've been obsessed with Story 20. When I opened it was at 90,000 words. I added 20,000 words, but ended up deleting 10,000 of them because it took me so long to realize I had taken the story down the wrong path. Ugh. Now it's at 145,000 with the ending almost completed. However, as I'm re-reading it, I've realized I need to add another chapter near the beginning and another about a quarter of the way through - not to add more words, but to write a better picture. I love the beginning of this story, and I want to get it out, but it just keeps growing. I'm not really changing anything which normally means the section is done, but as I keep reading I feel as though I should go back and write more, something that doesn't happen very often when I actually like what's there. (Have I ever mentioned how much I love writing?)
Story 17 was being read by a friend to make sure that it was a story worth working on. And she loved it. A few grammatical things (no surprise there), but she had no advice for the story itself. This story had seemed completed the last time I read it, except that someone unexpected appeared near the end and now I have to write more. I'm not sure if it will be another book or I will just extend the book. However with the people in story 20 being so loud and clear, I haven't had the opportunity to work on this story since my friend gave it back to me. Also, exciting news about Story 17, is that I have the base for the cover finished. It's not quite right, but maybe after I come up with the title it will all fall into place!
Story 10 has a title, and is mostly finished! It was finished until I realized what the title was and now there is a little bit more that needs to be written. So once Story 20 has calmed down, I am going to re-read and polish up Story 10. I have not come up with a cover for this story yet, no surprise there, but having a title and mostly completed book I am hopeful that cover will make itself known when I re-read it.
I've also mostly completed Story 25. I had been interrupted a lot while writing the ending so I'm not going to say its done, especially when in the back of my mind I don't think it is. But it's pretty exciting to think that the skeleton of it is complete. This story is lacking title and cover, but it will eventually come to me.
"Rise of Ansea" book 2 does have a title and the story is finished in that it has a beginning, middle, and end is written. However it's really not long enough. My mom read it and said she'd like to see more of Rot and Havoc, and I'd like to write more about a newer character, so as soon as I can focus on that I will have that story completed as well! And believe it or not, I do have the cover idea figured out, I just have to make it happen!
And for those of you who may be wondering: whatever happened to The Huntsman's Daughter. I have re-read it (made a lot of corrections), and now I just need time to go in and fix things. I do love this story and I very much want it available for you to read again, but not in the state that it is at the moment. If you didn't know this was my attempt at a true adult (Romance) story, which made it more difficult to find people to edit and get feedback for - since I don't know a lot of people who read this genre. So I am sorry about the issues on this one.
So that's what's going on in my writer's world. My "real life" world is rather busy too, which makes for an interesting life. One which I will not complain about, because I keep writing and am blessed to have three amazing kids.
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