I did a little rewrite on Queen of the Isle, more or less to simplify the lead-in of the story a bit.  When I read it again after letting it sit for a while, it felt too busy to me.  I stripped out a walk through a city of Agreseus, putting them directly on the ship instead.  I removed a couple of other relatively unimportant character elements, and I’m now back up to where I originally left off with a far tighter opening to the story.

Taking a few minutes to blow off some steam, and then I’ll decide if I want to pick up there, or pick up where I left off on SOTM 17.  Probably won’t get much done, because my butthead child took a four hour nap this afternoon at daycare that ended at 8:30.  Getting him into bed is going to be a nightmare.  Trying to concentrate and write with a wound-up child awake is hardly optimal conditions.

Anyway, off to goof around and chill out before I get back to the word processor.

I’m at about the halfway point of SOTM 17, and I’ll be moving on to the next scene after this little break.

Things are going pretty good, and the new direction I’m contemplating for how the books are going to progress seems to be giving me motivation.  I think I’d sort of boxed myself in with the original plan, and opening my mind to some flexibility is tearing down those walls.

Think I’m going to have to put in a trouble ticket for those internal server errors that keep popping up.  It had calmed down for a while, and I thought that perhaps upgrading to the new WordPress had fixed it, but no such luck.  It’s getting bad again, and it’s ridiculous.  I’m paying for service here, and the server is throwing errors all the time.  Time to be a complainer :p

Okay, off to my little break, and then back to the chapter.  I’d like to be almost done with it before the day’s overwith, and the scenes I’m working on might just get me there 😀

Wrote a little on SOTM 17 this morning.  The scene has been playing out in my head for a while, and it’s finally coming out on paper.

Other things have been flitting around as well… I may be changing the direction of how this part of the story ends.  I’m not really changing any outcomes, just the point at which SOTM is going to end.  Some things may get moved to the third book of the trilogy.  The more I think about it, the more sense it makes.

We’ll see 😀

I really need to get all my mods back into this blog *laugh*  I’ve been lazy.  I’ll try to get that together tomorrow.

I just haven’t been in writing mode.  I hate these zero motivation periods.  It seems like the only time I feel like writing is when I don’t have any time to do it.  After I get up before work.  When I get up early on the weekend before the young one.  In the middle of the day at work.

I did manage to write a bit more on SOTM 17, and I’m going to give it a few more strokes of the pen before I crash.  Just need to put the young one in the bed and turn off all the extraneous stuff in the front room so I can think.

Coming up on a battle and what would have been that introduction to a new supporting character.  I ended up demoting her to a peripheral character who’s simply going to point Danica and Marlena in the right direction.   Had a much better ( and far more epic ) idea to culminate the current journey.