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!