Tuesday October 23, 2007

first off, my thanks to Stanman for talking me into posting stories here. So, Thanks, Stan.

Okay, so far I've posted some pretty serious stuff, but that won't continue all the time. I'll lighten things up soon, I promise! I plan to start editing and reformatting my Heaven and Hell stories next, and before anyone asks... Yes there will be new stuff coming from me, just not right away. Patience would be appreciated from this end.

The most recent story I've posted, 'Dead Heroes' was originally put up at Sapphire's, but taken down because I actually got it published in a real paper book. I have the rights to it back now, and thought I'd share it with all of you. Truthfully, the book of short stories didn't sell all that well, anyway. :)

For fans of Morgana who have probably given up by now. I really do have the last chapters outlined. Life in general has been a bitch over the past few years is all, and my writing time dwindled to pretty well nothing because of that. Don't ask for details, I won't tell you if you do.

For you Whately fans, I'm currently working on a story that my fellow authors there are calling an epic. Is it? Got me. But it is long already (five chapters, 60.000+ words) and is just getting to the point where it is rolling along on it's own momentum. At last! My muse is having fun with it.

To those of you interested in the Fey story 'Learning Curve', bad news. I had to scrap most of what I'd done and am reworking the story now. I was just trying to cover too many things and go too many directions at once in the story. But it will get done.

There is also a Christmas story for Whateley that will get done. Babs Yerunkle is insistent and unstoppable when she wants something, that involves both Fey and Jade.

I also have a new Caregiver's story in the works. Another long one, and only about a third finished at this point. But it takes up where 'The Best and the Brightest' left off.

Now to some random firings of synapses.

I went a long time without writing a thing, but as mentioned, RL really hit me between the eyes then sat on my back once I was down. I've recovered, and my muse is really making up for lost time here. Wow is she ever! Now I'm not making promises as to when here, but there will be new stuff from me showing up again. Overall, the TG community has been very good to me, and I'm still committed to giving all you readers something back for that. Truthfully, the positive comments and genuine criticisms I've received since I posted my first story on the net (Heaven and Hell) have contributed a lot to making me a better writer. Stories I could always tell without a problem. Getting them into a coherent format and the little nuts and bolts things I still mess up with at times, but I'm working on that.

Since this is my first entry in this blog, I will say this. Thank you all for the support, the praise, the crits, and for just reading the things I write. I'll even thank the negative reviewers and others like that. You made me think about what I was doing more than all the praise I ever received.