With the whole discussion regarding unfinished works, I felt that perhaps a status update for book 5 of the Heaven's Light Saga should be put up for anyone curious. It's been a wacky year so far between more work changes and things with family (such as my mom being in and out of the hospital five times since Christmas), so the book hasn't made as much progress as I'd hoped. However Part 1 is almost drafted, needing just one fae party scene (whee!) to finish it out, and the framework for the rest of the major beats through to the ending are mostly figured out.
This book was somehow even harder to get moving than the last one, having had at least four false-start fully drafted chapters tossed to the way-side while trying to find the best place/scene to launch. But eventually the 'right' one hit the page and the following chapters began to align properly so with any luck (and inspiration from the muse!) the rest can now proceed and fall into place. Maybe I'm weird but I don't seem happy with trying to write chapters out of order. I need to know what happened previous before I feel I can proceed as the muse likes to pull rabbits out of hats in the middle of typing scenes I thought were already worked out in my head - usually thereby turning out prose much better than initial conceptions had dared dream.
Anyway, sorry that it's still going to be awhile before anything becomes publishable - but I *am* working on it. It's still very much an obsession (as friends of mine will attest) which certainly won't go away until the whole kit-and-caboodle is finished.
And if you missed the postings of the completed Book 4 Light And Shadow last fall (as I suspect there may be a few who have), please do check it out! Or read the saga from the very beginning if you happen to like spirits, fae, dragons, angels, and of course the occasional apocalypse. :)
Thanks!
Erisian <3
P.S. Fortunately it looks like a week or so ago they may have finally figured out the main source of painful difficulties which were plaguing my mom - namely overlooked gallstones. She has too many other ongoing issues so unfortunately it took the doctors half a dang year to realize it.
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Looking forward to it.
I am getting older too and can understand more health issues pop up unexpectedly.
I don't know how old you are but it is my understanding that if you can make it to 60 with good health, the chances of going to 80 is that much more likely.
Selfishly, we can get more stories out of you that way ^_^
Here's hoping your mom can get over this hump.
Age
Well I used to claim I was old enough to know better and young enough to do it anyway, but not sure I can still get away with that. But at the same time I'm not there yet to earn a proper 'eccentric old git' title either.
In other words, I may be overdue for a midlife crisis? :)
Thank you for the kind wishes, we hope mom will get over this too. They were able to remove the big stone that was stuck without needing to remove the entire gallbladder and supposedly widened the passage so hopefully the other stones will pass on their own. (Two teams of docs had initial differing opinions on that, but then formed a consensus - time will tell, but so far so good?)
Gallstones - that can be "Yee-ouch!"
Glad they got a diagnosis. There is power in "knowing the name" of our dragon.
I had a 'shredded' gall bladder, and docs were able to "suck it out through a straw" (endoscopic surgery). So ask about that.
After my Mom had her gallbladder removed, she had some problems if she ate a lot of greens or fats and oils. Gall (bile) is 'for' digesting those. So ask.
My Mom's gallstones were cholesterol-based. If your Mom is the same (ask), have her cholesterol and blood lipids (fats) checked. In any case bring those down. Best way is to eat very little (shoot for no) fats and oils.
High cholesterol and blood fats can 'set us up' for any/all of heart attack, diabetes, stroke.
More info at PCRM.org
Diet
Agreed, One cannot emphasize how important a proper diet can be.
My brother died of a heart attack, after having a quadruple bypass before that.
One guess as to why his arteries were in such a horrid state that he would die at only 67 years of age. Apparently he had that bypass surgery at only 61 years of age.
Sorry but as delicious as Pizza, Mc Donald's (personally I hate mickey d's but apparently a lot of people love it of course) Burger King etc is or a couple of gallons of ice cream a week sounds, there are consequences.
Yes, there are exceptional people who can tolerate that kind of dietary abuse fine but I sincerely doubt the majority of us can. Sadly many think they are the 'exceptional' one and can literally have their cake and eat it too.
That is just soooooo not the case.
You are a brilliant writer
so it's better for us mortals to (impatiently) wait for your masterliece to be published!
Aww
Thank you Voldy! :)