Kindred is moving right along. I have my two main protagonists thrown together, and the next scene will start some sparks between them.
Think I’m done for the night, because I’m a little brain-drained and bone-weary. I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be a daunting battle to get the young one in bed tonight, too. He slept in for way too long this morning.
Hoping that going back to work tomorrow won’t steal too much of my momentum.
2900 words into Kindred, and moving right along. I’d probably be farther, but I had to stop and do a lot of research on various things that play minor roles in the story. I don’t want to get called out for going beyond the bounds of GPS, two-way radios, and sat phones. I need them as minor plot devices.
Got the first read back on Queen, and I’m making adjustments now. It will be ready well in advance of the start of the contest, but everyone will just have to wait 😉 The other story will go up as soon as it’s edited, but it’s in my secret pen name, so I can hardly announce it here, can I?
Haven’t had one of those server errors in a couple of days. Maybe the host has finally migrated me off the glitchy server. Here’s to hoping.
Off to bed. Back to writing in the morning.
Finished my first-pass edit of Queen, and it’s off in the hands of first readers. I’ve alerted my editor that he has a couple of stories coming his way, as well.
Also finished that third pen name story. Ditto the first-readers.
Started reworking the beginning of Kindred again. I just got back from the store, so I’m going to cool down and relax for a few before I dive back into that.
Starting to itch about Lowborn as well. Only two chapters ( I think ) left there, so it would be nice to get it finished and out there.
Anyway, I’m clearing the plate a little. Hope to make some serious progress on Kindred this weekend.
Doing a little bit of everything. I spent most of the day musing Kindred, and I’m going to end up changing that first scene again *laugh* It just gives away too much of the story the way I have it written. Likewise, I’m going to introduce a character a little later than I have to provide a bit of tension building.
Probably won’t work on that tonight, though. I wrote on that story I’ve been fiddling with in my third pen name when I got home. Still quite a bit of the sex scene left to write there.
Once I’ve wound down a bit, I’ll probably go into the first cold read of Queen. If the boy happens to go to sleep, I might jump on that rework of Kindred, or get back to that third pen name story. That’s unlikely, though.
Had an epiphany on the way to work this morning, and started on my next summer story when I got home. My original location has changed from Florida to northern Minnesota ( the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ) both because I could reduce the suspension of reality quotient, and because I’m more familiar with the location. I’ve scrapped a character, changed the relationship between two others, have a whole new hook from that epiphany, and changed the title.
What was formally going to be Whispers of the Wood is now Kindred of the Wood. I’m 1200 words in, and rolling along, telling Mara’s tale. With any luck, I’ll actually get this one finished and polished in time to enter it in the contest.
