More Edits (of course) and Maybe Some Writing

10/12/20

I'm sure it surprises no one when I say edits are continuing.  I am still working my way through A Little Fairy Dust.  If It were only one story, I'd be done, but with so many together in the collection it takes on a unique set of challenges.  Each individual story has a slightly different tone, which means I have to switch gears mentally whenever I finish one and start another.  Completing the edits has been much harder than I expected as a result, but I'm making a lot of progress and I'm really happy with how all the stories are turning out.  I'm hoping to have A Little Fairy Dust back to the editor really soon, which means I'll be able to return to working on Magnified again! 

Writing has been...well...sparse.  I want to be working on Dragon Spy or Codified, but neither story has good chi for me right now.  I need to figure out where I'm blocked so I can begin moving forward again.  Instead, my brain has been poking at one of the random stories sitting on my to-do list.  It's untitled and there's no summary (see Spirit Story on my current projects page), yet my brain has been coming up with ideas for the next scene.  Spirit is supposed to be a slightly darker detective story.  I want it to be more horror-style than my usual happy dragons (think Magnified, but with less traditional forms of magic), but I've got to be in a certain mood to write (my style of) horror, which hasn't happened lately or Codified would be flowing better. 

The other story that has been bugging me lately is one of the stories I never got around to writing ten years ago.  A witch, exiled from his coven because he's male when all witches should be female, is forced to visit the den of vampires and werewolves by the news station he works for.  That fateful meeting sets the carefully rebuilt life the witch had made into a tailspin.  I've wanted to write the story for years, but haven't had the time with all the other stories on my to-do list.  Suddenly my brain keeps replaying the opening scene over and over again, to the point that I need to write it down. 

I am hoping once I finish the two sets of edits on my plate I'll be able to get some writing in.  Whether it will be for the two stories I need to be working on, or the two stories my brain is insisting I work on instead, I can't tell you.  All I know is I'll be glad for any writing I do accomplish.