Wow, it has really been a long time since I’ve posted to this blog.
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger.
But I’m not going to fret over that. Nope. I’ve recently made a promise to myself to stop fretting over everything so much. You see, it wasn’t as if I hadn’t thought about blogging. My problem is that I tend to fret way too much about what to post. About what to blog about, how to title a post, how to tag it. I won’t bother to mention everything else I tend to fret over (i.e. EVERYTHING).
Despite my over analyzing, I did manage to make some decent writing progress, though.
I’d received some feedback on my fantasy romance novel from a few of the members of my local writing group about how they would have loved to actually see the foreign elf language that I referred to but never displayed. So over the summer I created a language for my fantasy series. Holly Lisle’s ebook Create A Language Clinic broke the process down into steps that made it easy, geeky fun! Armed with the language I call Linjista Diis, I went back and did another revision of The Beauty of Death taking a close look at ALL of the dialog in the book, reading it out loud and tweaking it all until it sounds just as good outside of my head as it did inside of it.
That was the most fun editing I’ve ever had, actually!
So with that story polished to perfection I’m ready to send it back out into the wild. Let’s see what happens!
This summer I also finished a first and second draft of a science-fiction romance novella, titled The Oma Pursuit. It needs another round of revisions and then a final polishing, but I think I’m suffering from editing burnout because I spent weeks “editing” the same pathetic chapter over and over. So I’ll come back to that one.
Writing Tip: Don’t waste time forcing yourself to finish something you’re really not in the mood too. If you’ve burned yourself out on a task or project, take a break and work on something more enjoyable. You’ll still be productive!
My “break” project turned out to be an adult re-telling of fairy tale that isn’t frequently redone. Since I’m only about 2k words into this novella though, and still working out a couple of plot details, I won’t say too much more about it just yet. I’ll say more about this story when I’m further along in the project because if I post something about it here and I go back to the story and decide to totally change it, I’ll feel bad about having posted wrong info on my blog.
And I really don’t want to fret about that.
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