Howdy!
In theory my last update was in August, but for some reason unknown to me it doesn’t actually show up on the main page. The update before that was in June, so either way it’s been a minute. I’m still poking plots with sticks, as one does. My gratitude is endless for the fact that 2023 has been by and large a quiet year, after having three (four or five, really, in my personal case) years in a row of complete and utter chaos. Do I feel like it’s the calm before a very large storm? Maybe I do. Am I wrong? We won’t know until we get there. Is this just me having a hefty helping of paranoia? Most definitely.
What Am I Working On?
Gil Girau Chronicles – Book One (Urien of Escathir) is complete, currently in revision to add in things I’ve come up with in the course of further building up the world around the characters. Book Two (Shadows of Salrohis) was my NaNo project, and I got about 60k words into it before a good friend pointed out that a main villain needs work and the scenes are all out of order. So I’m rewriting parts of that one already, but it’s in progress. Yes, I am working on two books at once, sort of, with Book Three (Dragon of Gil Girau) in the noodliest stages of planning. The NaNoWriMo burnout is a little bit strong with this one, so rewrites, retcons, and revisions have been my focus over the course of December. I hope to have Urien of Escathir out sometime next year. Hopefully. Finally. I’ve only been working on it for two whole years. (Technically three, but I’m not going to count the proto-draft.)
Salt 2: Electric Boogaloo – Yet again on standby. This is in part because I’m waiting for my father to get the cat off his desk (if you know you know) and in part because I’ve been so focused on my own work. I haven’t looked at my draft of this in a while and having learned a lot about writing from spending two years mucking with Gil Girau, I’m a little bit afraid to.
2024 is just around the corner. I don’t know how this happened, and I’m reticent to say anything about how I expect it to go. We won’t know until we get there and the last ten or so years have shaped me into a person that very much doesn’t want to make plans and promises that could very easily be snapped away by circumstances beyond anyone’s control. My personal mantra is slowly becoming “we’ll see.”
And so we will. Take care of yourselves, y’all, I’ll be around. Lurking quietly and poking plots with sticks.