Writing... or pretending to write

Hey hey everybody!

Organization: [awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuh n] noun. the act or process of organizing.

This is what I've been up to this week with Book One. Awr-guh-nuh-zey-shuh n. It was a daunting task at first, but then I found that I rather enjoyed the power I hold over my future readers. I can either send them to fifty years ago, or back to the 14th century with just the click of a few keys. I was drunk on it.

Power: [pou-er] noun. the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy



While going through my two files, I decided that it's a little crazy to have 60+ pages in one document (even though I had always known that the day would come when they got to this length when I originally divided everything to keep in chronological order), so now I have 6 documents about 20 pages in length, in plot order. Eeek!

It was exciting to read through what the final (well, how I imagine it) product will be. A happy little discovery: the next scene I'm working on is the time period that changes D for the rest of the story. Lots of pressure on me now!

I do need to be careful, and think futuristically, because Book Two and Book Three revisit this memory, and I want to make sure that I'm not going to be repeating myself in the coming years/books.

More exciting news that really doesn't pertain to me except for the fact that I really hope I'm able to attend this event next week *takes deep breath after run-on sentence*

Maggie Stiefvater, #1 NYT Bestselling Author of The Shiver Trilogy (also Books of Faerie), is coming to campus (I work in higher education, which you'd know if you read my bio to the right!) to speak and do a book signing next week! AGHHHH I was shocked that this event flew under my radar and I had nothing to do with planning it o.O

Anyway, so I shall have to acquire hard copies of her books because asking her to sign my phone with a sharpie would be a little weird.

Now that I've got Ryan pegged as Ryan, and snow days are over so I'm not alone with muh bebe all day... I'm back to work after a 5-day forced hiatus from writing. I've gotten almost 2,000 words done today over my lunch break, and I'm just itching to clock out so I can do more.


But but... paid work is good work. That just means I must be patient and trudge through the boring slop of my to-do list at my current job until I can click that "OK" button when it asks me if I'm sure I want to end my work day.

Sigh... can't wait.

On the plus side, I'm now over 40,000. For those of you who have difficulties putting that into book/page length, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is just under 77,000 words. So I'm longer than half of the first Harry Potter book! Yay me!


I'm working on D's relationship with Ryan at the moment. D is fiercely protective of A (she is his little sister after all) and doesn't take well to Ryan being in on their secret.

As I've been thinking more and more about their past, I have come to accept that A and D will experience some PTSD, but I want it to be clear that I'm not writing a book about PTSD. I know it is a horrible disorder, but my books are not meant to be an informative source about it.

With that said, A and D look out for each other and keep one another grounded in the present. Because of this bond, Ryan entering the picture kind of freaks D out a bit, and I've been exploring that relationship today (which has been fun, because I know D sooooo well based on scenes from Book Two and Book Three, and I'm giddy to be able to find places to let his personality shine!).

For those of you who haven't read my... summary? blurb? "back cover text"? Whatever it's called, I shall be posting it soon on a page (not as a post) so just keep an eye out. When the time comes for it to go up, I hope you all are excited about it!

My wonderful husband is... well, wonderful. He named him! The guy, A's love interest! Yup, I married a genius.


Ryan.