Kristen Gupton's Blog: Life With My Vampire, page 4
April 10, 2018
Odd...
Made a post a while back when I killed my Tumblr blog about why I did so. That post reverts back to "draft" status each time I try to bring it back up here.
...interesting, but not entirely a surprise.
Currently working on the sixth and last book of the Royal Blood series. While it is a world I've been comfortable writing in since I penned my first bit of it all (literally penned...we didn't really have home computers then. Okay, the cool families did, with those sweet monotone screens and such) I'm ready to put this series to bed.
Not to say I'm abandoning that world, because I'm not. The next series, spoiler alert, is in that same world, just a few hundred years down the road and will run more along the lines of urban fantasy.
But...
There is at least one more book or perhaps as much as a trilogy that I do intend to write at some point about our dearest Athan Vercilla's origins. What did he really go through when he was younger? Not to mention, the story of Kayla's time in Talaus would be worth revisiting, too. Then, lately, I've had this inkling that I want to give Corina a bit of scree--page time, as well. I think the old girl's tale and how exactly she ended up in Turis Lee's castle and how her relationship with Athan all went down might be worth a story. Poor Little Red Riding Hood...it was the wolf all along, lady.
Because, you see...that's all a little more complicated than has been let on in the Royal Blood books, too. It was not a coincidence that she found herself there. Nope. And why does Keiran romanticize goat herding? Where in the world did THAT come from?
It is a story for another day.
Honestly, I could have enough stories to pull out of this first series to keep me busy for a long, long time to come, but I'm not really sure anyone would care to read some of that. I mean, how emotionally invested is anyone over my secondary characters? Dunno...
"Well, punkin, about as much interest as there is in reading your assorted blogs you've maintained over the years."
Fair enough, and I'd probably write those stories anyway, because I just happen to like doing so.
What's funny is that the first book in The Afterlands series is actually the first time my protagonist ever appeared on paper (college-ruled, spiral bound) when the inspiration struck. I wrote the first story, or what would eventually evolve into into what I'm finally working on, back in the early 90's, when I was just a pup back in high school. I certainly took the long way around getting back to it, but straight lines and orderly progress are things I've never been in a deep relationship with, and I'd be hard-pressed to pick them both out of a police line up.
...interesting, but not entirely a surprise.
Currently working on the sixth and last book of the Royal Blood series. While it is a world I've been comfortable writing in since I penned my first bit of it all (literally penned...we didn't really have home computers then. Okay, the cool families did, with those sweet monotone screens and such) I'm ready to put this series to bed.
Not to say I'm abandoning that world, because I'm not. The next series, spoiler alert, is in that same world, just a few hundred years down the road and will run more along the lines of urban fantasy.
But...
There is at least one more book or perhaps as much as a trilogy that I do intend to write at some point about our dearest Athan Vercilla's origins. What did he really go through when he was younger? Not to mention, the story of Kayla's time in Talaus would be worth revisiting, too. Then, lately, I've had this inkling that I want to give Corina a bit of scree--page time, as well. I think the old girl's tale and how exactly she ended up in Turis Lee's castle and how her relationship with Athan all went down might be worth a story. Poor Little Red Riding Hood...it was the wolf all along, lady.
Because, you see...that's all a little more complicated than has been let on in the Royal Blood books, too. It was not a coincidence that she found herself there. Nope. And why does Keiran romanticize goat herding? Where in the world did THAT come from?
It is a story for another day.
Honestly, I could have enough stories to pull out of this first series to keep me busy for a long, long time to come, but I'm not really sure anyone would care to read some of that. I mean, how emotionally invested is anyone over my secondary characters? Dunno...
"Well, punkin, about as much interest as there is in reading your assorted blogs you've maintained over the years."
Fair enough, and I'd probably write those stories anyway, because I just happen to like doing so.
What's funny is that the first book in The Afterlands series is actually the first time my protagonist ever appeared on paper (college-ruled, spiral bound) when the inspiration struck. I wrote the first story, or what would eventually evolve into into what I'm finally working on, back in the early 90's, when I was just a pup back in high school. I certainly took the long way around getting back to it, but straight lines and orderly progress are things I've never been in a deep relationship with, and I'd be hard-pressed to pick them both out of a police line up.
January 18, 2018
Plans, plans, the best laid plans...
With a mere 17 payments left on the Kenworth, I was getting itchy to get out of trucking completely and move into writing full time. I currently have FIVE different novels open on my computer right now, in various stages of completion.
And then, the crappy trucking rates that have done nothing but sink over the last eight years have suddenly done a 180 and are skyrocketing. And that, friends, is as political as I'll get in public life. The facts are simply what they are. Trucking is booming suddenly.
...and I'm going all in. No more leasing the truck on under anyone else's authority. No more being told what loads I'm taking. Nope, it's all going to be on me in about 3 weeks from right now. I need to go trailer shopping tomorrow.
I will still write, as being a writer full-time is really what I'm after, but it will probably be pushed out a little further than a year and a half from now. Thing is, the debt and such that I've been dragging around for the last billion years has the potential to finally be paid off with extra to put away.
...and THAT will make it far, far easier to take the dive into quitting the "day job" and moving into writing as a career considerably easier when the time is finally right.
And then, the crappy trucking rates that have done nothing but sink over the last eight years have suddenly done a 180 and are skyrocketing. And that, friends, is as political as I'll get in public life. The facts are simply what they are. Trucking is booming suddenly.
...and I'm going all in. No more leasing the truck on under anyone else's authority. No more being told what loads I'm taking. Nope, it's all going to be on me in about 3 weeks from right now. I need to go trailer shopping tomorrow.
I will still write, as being a writer full-time is really what I'm after, but it will probably be pushed out a little further than a year and a half from now. Thing is, the debt and such that I've been dragging around for the last billion years has the potential to finally be paid off with extra to put away.
...and THAT will make it far, far easier to take the dive into quitting the "day job" and moving into writing as a career considerably easier when the time is finally right.
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