Progress How Novel 59

 Ordered proof for The Dragon's Keeper. 

Added two entries for my blog Novel Reads. They're series books from my digital TBR list. The one entry is books from two weeks ago and the other is from last week.  I read 6 books in two weeks.  If you want to see what I read go here Novel Reads

I also read some fanfiction. I check a few writers and keep up with them. But I'm not fanatic. 

All this means I didn't write much on Book 2 or the two shorts. 

I get into these reading splurts and writing goes by the wayside. But I have the next four months of winter weather to write so I'm not worried or in a hurry--yet. 

I made a new Facebook cover for my one page and changed the pic on my personal page. 

I also messed around some more on my blog pages. I changed the name of my 'landing pad' to Novel Tea and put up a new pic. Novel Reads got a new theme as did The Alliance page. And Time After Time got a new pic. I thought they needed a new update before I write the next books.

Progress How Novel 58

 Got my book Resurgent with the new cover. Hopefully it gets more traction. I haven't sold a one in months on Amazon.

Haven't written anything but a few story ideas in my journal this last week. I've been reading from my TBR list instead. 

Also I'm thinking about a tagline for Resurgent and Last Dragon Kin. I got one for Raven Manor--Murder with a bite. Now I need one for the other two. Destiny with a Dragon came to mind for LDK or Destiny as a Dragon or Dragon kismet. Thinking on it as I said.

I also messed around with a couple of my blogs. Re-engineered a few things on them. So they look a little different, transformed a bit. Gearing them up for when the books roll out. Though that may be up to a year, depending on how much I write this winter. 

Book 2 of Ghostwolf, Book 2 of Time-Lost, and the two shorts are what I have on the agenda right now. They need to be done before I turn my attention to Book 1 of the Song Saga and Book 1 of The Alliance. Then there is the next Fallborn book. 

I have a lot on my plate. Sometimes I wish I could just snap my fingers and the book would appear fully written. But then I wouldn't get to go on the journey with my characters. Or get surprises sprung on me when the characters suddenly reveal them.  It can be nerve racking, but very fulfilling when your characters go off script. :)

And I'm trying to stop chewing my fingernails.

 I've chewed them since I was a child. My mom twists hers off. How I don't know, but she does. But I chew mine. A nervous habit they say for both of us. It is sooo hard not to chew them. I find my fingers in my mouth a lot, but aside from my pinkies I haven't chewed them. But both pinkies were sacrificed. I just couldn't stop myself. So the pinkies are my nibbles while I let the others grow. 

Progress How Novel 57

 Wrote a bit in Book 2. 

Also wrote a few words in a few other stories. Couldn't concentrate on just one story so I skipped around and worked a little in different ones. Not a big word count but at least I wrote during my writing time instead of reading today.

The Dragon's Keeper is back from proofreading/editing. Only a bit of correction needed. Little things mostly.  So it should be out before Christmas.

Had a bit of a flash of Book 4 in the Ghostwolf Series today. Wrote down as much as I could before it faded. I get these flashes of scenes and if I don't write them down right away, the details start to fade away until I only have a vague sense of the scene. Much like a dream. 

Book 2, The Riven is percolating in my mind still. My brain has come up with something but is ruminating on it subconsciously, in the back of my mind. It will burst out suddenly and I'll be in a writing sprint to get it down before I lose all the details. I can never catch and retain all of my ideas and thoughts. They just slip through my metaphoric fingers. 

Progress How Novel 56

 Wrote a bit in The Dragon Familiar, the next Fallborn book and Book 2. 

But I've been reading in my TBR list mainly. Two books so far and working on a third. Been more in the mood to read than write this last week. Something is percolating. So my writer brain is churning, leaving the rest of my brain craving the distraction of reading.  

I can feel a long session of writing coming in my future.

Had another story idea for the Ghostwolf Series. So four stories for that series.  The prequel, Raven Manor, book 1 is published and The Riven, book 2 is over halfway done. Book 3 and Book 4 have story bibles started and tentative titles.