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This July, I want to invite you to come nano with me. We’ll have weekly updates, tea and cookies, and write-a-thons at three in the morning. Although we’ll wish we were on the other side of the finish line each and every moment, I want us to enjoy the process because the journey makes the destination. I want to chase the dream. I want to achieve it even harder. I want something real and true. Which brings me to current news. I have finished the preliminary outline of Crown (my inner editor is having a fit! This is my first ever completed outline and I know it needs major work but at least I have a destination in sight) and have 10,000 words on paper. I am over the moon but on June 13, 2018 I realized something: I was stuck in place. See, in September of 2014, I finished my first “official” manuscript (let’s call it “F”). Crown is the bastard child of the step child of that MS, which I found myself coming back to year after year. On the 13th, I took the tome from it’s pedestal and reread it. It’s been nearly four years and, sure as stone, all my stories have been drafts of that same one. Holding it--reading it--loosened something inside me and other feelings shifted into place. It felt as if I had spent years running after a shadow when glory was at home. Sometimes, to go forward, we must double back. I think I’ve learned enough to go back to the 400 page monstrosity and find the beauty in it. This July, I want to work on that. deathlessSome of you might notice the shining new “Deathless” tab on my WIP page. Well, Deathless was the first iteration of “F”. In 2015, I got about 10,000 words into it before reality stole me away (which happens more often than not). 2016 was a year that was not conducive to writing at all but the ideas flowed regardless. That was the year QoA discovered me. The year I started hounding knowledge. 2017 was a year of hungry learning. I discovered techniques to improve my writing and immersed myself in the community. 2018 is a year in which I seem to be gaining balance and control. To settle into myself. A year in which I have clearly defined goals and I am creating the opportunities and giving myself the tools to achieve them. Deathless is a Romeo & Juliet/fairy tale inspired sci-fantasy in which the murders of two heirs will lead to civil war if two outcasts do not find the killer before he/she strikes again. While Crown is truer to F, Deathless shares that expansive spirit of things slotting into place. Of a lean kind of hope and unlimited possibilities. I want to put that into words. I want to chase the dream. I want to achieve it even harder. I want something real and true. So, without further ado, let's reach for the stars and beyond. stats
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