Champagne anyone? Sparks is done–sent off into the world to pursue its destiny.I’ve put a permanent line through the ‘publish Sparks’ item on my list. Now I can fully focus on the next story. Except that… I hadn’t realized that readers would get so attached to Gabrielle and Jarin. Friends ask what their next story […]
It apparently isn’t enough to keep up with all the drama the characters in my new story are creating for themselves. Now I am muddying the waters by interweaving their dramas and making each of them instruments in each other’s dilemma. Insanity. I don’t know why the writing is taking me in that direction, but […]
It’s good that my nights are filled with dreams about my new story. I hardly have time to work on it during the day. Writing to my dreams saves me the time of figuring the story out during the day—and then writing. My days are consumed with the logistics of publishing Sparks. It’s a complicated dance […]
When writing my first book, I would hear others say that the second one is harder. I had to toss those words out of my brain because even the first draft of the first book was hard enough. I’ve recently started drafting the second book and I saw that those folks were right. I now […]
