Finally finished that scene that’s been getting bits and pieces for a while now — basically since my last little flurry of writing motivation.  The next jumps to the witches three, and then comes back to Danica and Marlena for some… interesting interaction.

After that, it’s a cliffhanger related to the opening scene of this chapter, and it should be done.  It’s quite possible that this will be a longer than usual chapter.

Sent “Ride No More” off for final editing.  Odds are that I’ll have it back in short order, and get it in the queue for the contest.  I’m sort of delaying Kindred a bit, both so I could work on SOTM, and so it will come out after the start of the contest.  Sort of spread out the steady climb of numbers and stream of comments that always makes unleashing a new story worthwhile.

Plus, I should have at least one in my third pen name to enter as well.  This contest should provide plenty of long-lived positive feedback to pump me up for more writing.  I think I’ll actually write on that one a little before I go to bed, and start back fresh into the next scene of SOTM tomorrow.

Did a lot of musing on both SOTM and Lowborn today.  I’m itching to write on both of them.  The plan is to dive back into SOTM after I finish this little break I’m on right now.

What I’m taking a break from is tweaking both Kindred and Ride.  Kindred was just getting some bits of imagery that popped in my head as I was drifting off to sleep last night.  It’s still technically in the simmering phase before the cold read.

Ride needed something.  The flow was off in one spot — too jumpy.  I also had a bit of imagery that I wanted to put in there that gave a better indication of what was happening.  Hard to explain without giving away the story.  I also changed the ending, which was too abrupt.  That was the one thing I wasn’t really happy with, and I’m much pleased with the change.

Okay, off to eat and chill for a while.  If I get anything major done on SOTM, I’ll pop back in and drop a line.