After finishing up a couple of things as RR, I opened up something that’s been tormenting me just as much as Lowborn.

Over all this time, I’ve probably written five chapters worth of stuff that I’ve backspaced for the next chapter of SOTM.  I just couldn’t get the opening right to save my life.  Sometimes, all it takes is a single scene to bring me to a complete halt.  It was that way with Lowborn, and it’s been that way with Ch. 19.

I just finished writing that first scene – a mere 448 words – and I’m happy with it.

I think I really needed the time away from writing ( even if it was primarily because work had been HELL ) and a recharge of my fantasy batteries.  You may know this if you’ve been to the forum, but one of the things I’ve been doing when I couldn’t write was playing CRPGs.  Neverwinter Nights + expansions, Neverwinter 2 + expansions ( first play through ), and Might and Magic VI-VIII.

I’ve done this before, as some may recall.  My roots are in the PnP role playing game, and the roots of that are in old video games.  Sometimes, I just need to go back to the beginning.

It certainly seems to be working right now 🙂

I’m going to take a quick break and then write a naughty scene that’s been in my head since before I finished the last chapter all that time ago.  Probably have a nice wordcount to report before the night’s out.

Here’s hoping. Cross your fingers for me.

By the way, here’s a link to the very first mention of Lowborn.  http://darkniciad.com/blog/archives/830

The story has been in the works that long.  I’m pretty sure I started Ch. 01 not very long after that post.  It’s been a long road, and I’m sure you can see why I’m not posting anything from any story until it’s complete now.

How I wish I’d already come to that conclusion when I started posting SOTM.  The ending of Danica was a true ending, and the loose ends leading into the next book were subtle.  It wouldn’t have been anywhere near as annoying for readers to wait if there wasn’t a partially written story sitting there, even though they knew a second book was coming.

EDIT ( a little later ):  Yeah, writing conditions went to hell tonight.  Boy’s acting the ass *laugh*  Got another 150 or so written, but that was it.  I’ll come back to it tomorrow after the first full read of Lowborn.