Update: Crawling back (again)

No matter how far out into the world I venture, I always seem to end up here: my mother's house, sitting on my bed, a glass of eggnog to kick off the holiday season and debating which work in progress to get to.

My fiancé and I made that long 18-hour drive back to Alberta to be with my mother. It was tiring, but we always love a good road trip, even if it did snow before and after we hit Kelowna. That Tom Petty song, "Keep Crawling Back to You" played when we first drove into BC across the border. It's strange how the song has meaning driving both ways. I suppose the intention at the destination is what makes it feel I go crawling back every time.

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In any case, we are home and looking down the long road of a cold winter that weather forecasters are calling for. I've found work housecleaning and with freelance photography. It'll be money coming in until my books can do that for me. "Spellbound by Fire" comes out in 13 days (Nov. 16). Once work and everything is scheduled out, I'll be getting back to the sequel. In the meantime, I am doing bits of planning on a paranormal horror I am starting, called "Where Only the Graveyard Grows." My second poetry book, "Memoirs of a Small Town Girl" is still in the editing process. It kind of got put on the back burner as we were moving.

I've realized that with all these novels started, I need to organize myself and set deadlines for the completion of their first drafts. So here it is:

    Spellbound by the Sword is naturally my first priority, seems as Spellbound by Fire comes out so soon. Deadline for first draft: May 2012.
   Where Only the Graveyard Grows is a paranormal horror I have started. So far I have a bit of a character profile for it. However, the deadline for its first draft is Oct. 2012.
   Magic Touch is my crime-fiction novel. Due to the research it requires and some of that research needing me to be in Vancouver, I'm pushing this one further down on the list. Deadline for first draft: Spring 2013
Edge of Glory is a novel I just started. I've got about 1,000 words of a scene and that's really about it. Not sure where it's going yet. Deadline for first draft: Fall 2013.
Wildflowers Scattered, Estranged: Memoirs of a Small Town Girl has become more a side project. I'm not sure when this one will be done.

That's the plan. Now for the execution of it…and hopefully by the end of all these being self-published, the dream of being a full-time writer will be real.

 

 

 

 

 

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