Back On Track

Now that the health crisis with Riley Beans had resolved I can concentrate on writing again. I wrote a horror story a little while ago when stressed out by my cat being sick, craziness at work, stress at home as my unemployed husband continues to try to land a job...it's all been too distracting and I've been able to think about anything but getting my cat well again and trying to fix things at work that I shouldn't be having to deal with. I'm just a secretary, not a manager.

I trashed the first chapter of the sequel to Black King Takes White Queen that I had written and then set aside, intending to write the sequel as this year's NaNo novel in November. I'd given Kristina, a coworker who loved the book, the first chapter as a sneak peek at what's to come.

Saturday afternoon and evening we were all at a party at ne of the doctor's houses- he'd just bought the house and moved in this past July and wanted to throw a party for staff and a few neighbors. I happen to live in this neighborhood (since I was fifteen, actually. John and I bought a house here when my parents still live on Joann Drive. So the neighbors he invited are people I've known for years, except for one couple I hadn't yet met).

Anyway, Kristina asked me when she was going to get more chapters to read. I told her I'd trashed that version and started another and she was absolutely shocked that I would do such a thing. Well, it happens all the time. If I don't feel something is going the way it should I'll restart it. That's what I did.

Over this weekend I've written more and am now 16,063 words and about five chapters into the second book in the series. To appease her outrage I've printed off 32 pages and put them in a binder I'll give her tomorrow so she can get her Romney fix. It'll be interesting to hear what she thinks of this version. If she doesn't like it I may have to start again