Five Chapters Down a New Road

Writing is a joyful journey.

From a dream I had the other morning, in that time between sleeping and waking, a new novel is being written. I'm five plus chapters down the road on this new adventure. I guess I would have to say I take these trips without a GPS or any other means of navigational guidance, other than my Muse whispering directions in my ear- if you believe in such things. It's just how I write

This novel will apparently be about a dark wizard and a white witch. I can't say anymore about it because I really don't know anymore than that at the moment- the plot is developing with each chapter written.

I can say that Kelly grabbed the rough draft binder and has been chasing me down the road- in hot pursuit, I suppose you could say. She's a little slowed down doing some proofreading and editing as she goes and will most likely catch up to me tonight since I've slowed down to back track and fix up things that she's pointed out after yesterday's full tilt typing where I might have missed a key, and the auto checker might have misinterpreted a word and plugged in something totally outrageous just out of spite ( I think).

Meanwhile, best friend Darlene told me today at work that she's reread Talon:An Intimate Familiarity and is starting Talon:A Sense of Familiarity tonight in preparation for reading book three that I gifted her last week, Talon:The Familiarity of it All. I told her to hurry up and read because book four (Talon:Finding the Familiar) is on its way- one copy earmarked for her, one for me other best friend Gail (who wants to be my personal assistant), one for Kelly, one for my brother, one for my sister and the last one for me! She's read books one and two already last year but has found all sorts of interesting things reading through the first book again. It's nice to know that when she cleaned out her bookcase she moved all my books to the top shelf and NONE of them went to Goodwill!! :) Darlene and her husband heat with a woodstove so I'm also relieved that none of them have ended up fueling the fire to heat their house- another good sign!)

It's chilly and windy here in western MA...so I'm off to brew a cup of tea. Then, I'll be writing until bedtime because I kind of want to know what's going to happen next in this new novel!

Writing truly is a joyful journey for me (even though I often put my characters through the wringer on their journeys! However, I'm the kind of writer who laughs and cries right along with my characters and then high fives them at the end for making it through!) Kind of amazing that I'm a quiet person and not a drama queen in any way, shape or form for all the drama I write into each book!! But like they say, it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for!! Ha Ha!