In sickness and in health...

I shall edit. Not necessarily the words many expect, but they reflect the truth. I shall always write, always edit, and always explore my imagination. This week has been worse than others because I have been sick. I've been laid up in bed, napping for hours, and fighting a dreadful cough, but my mind still lingers on the pages within my mind.

For starters, I've been thinking about Opal, my latest adventure of the #StoneVengeanceSeries, and where the story is heading. Though I've made very little progress in the written word, I have explored how I want the story to end. That ending has changed slightly since I'm writing about the four horseman and the apocalypse. It is an end-of-the-world story and probably the last book within the series, so I need to not only close it out, but tie it off. I also don't want it to simple end. It has to be thought provoking and meaningful. To that end, I think I've settled on a final scene or two, but getting there from here now become the major task to which I have no answer.

My second thoughts are on the book Child of Need. I set this book aside months ago, but have since returned to it within my thoughts. I do know where I want it to end, but again getting there is where I'm stuck. I am, however, about to introduce a new character, Shamus, based on a conversation I had in a bar about an old uncle the man I spoke to had. Hopefully Shamus gives the main character the ah-ha moment on how to deal with her situation.

Lastly, I continue to edit #ShadowGodsSeries. This evening I finished editing 216 of 317 pages. With about 100 pages to go, I know I'm getting close for my first full read through and review. Though I've done massive re-writing, I still love the 30+ year old story. Best of all, I'm getting to the point where all hell breaks lose as the storyline splits for the first time. It is all from there that the books become nearly impossible to put down as characters, actions, and events become intertwined at a pace which doesn't end for 4 books. That's when we step into the past and truly begin to grasp the scope of what is going on before once again skipping up to the present for the final two books. It's taken me a long time to reach this point, but the work I've done before this has all been a step toward what I'm accomplishing now.