As promised, here’s my first update on my first week of writing in November. It’s my mock NaNoWriMo. As I told you previously, I’m focussed on finishing Dragon’s Wolf, the next book in the DragonFate Novels.
I had a good week, despite having to take the time to load my buffer with the story again. I did a lot of walking while Wynter and Arach moved back into my imagination. I think of characters as occupying an apartment in my mind and me listening at the keyhole to learn more about their story. They’re now talking away and I’m eavesdropping, like the nosy landlady I’ve always been.
I wrote a little over eight thousand words on Dragon’s Wolf last week, which is solid progress. I also have an outline for that elusive middle bit. One of the things I’ve been doing in recent years is switching between projects when I get stuck on some detail. I’m going to try to just work right through on this story and not switch to another. While making this needle carrier, I realized that focus may be a more effective working strategy – the needle carrier was a lot of hand sewing but I finished it fairly quickly because I just kept at it. So, that will be my plan for books, too.
Perhaps best of all, I figured out how to link these wolf shifters with Derek, the teenage wolf shifter in The Dragon Diaries, which was on my “figure it out” list.
I also have a working plan for books five and six in the series. I ordered the cover for book five and will show it to you soon.
The other thing I did last week was work with a cover artist on new covers for one of my Delacroix series. We did seven covers in ebook and the first one in POD wrap, so it was a bit intense. I do love the results, though. You can see them in today’s blog post on my Delacroix site, right here.
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