Writing Update

One of my goals this year is to have at least one blog post a month and I am determined to make that happen. For February, I’m going to give you some updates on my writing.

Writing is hard and some days I don’t think I can make it work. But I think that every writer feels that, at some point, so I keep pushing through the doubts and hope that one day I will be ready to share my words with the world.

I have just finished drafting Ferris Wheel Stories #2 and hope to have release news to share with everyone very soon! This is the sequel to my novella Worlds with Ruby which was released in 2017. This one has been a long time coming, but I’m happy with where it is and glad that I didn’t try to force it when I wasn’t feeling inspired to write in this world.

I’ve begun outlining and researching for some new projects that I am very excited about. One of them is a middlegrade portal fantasy about two siblings and the other is a fantasy story inspired by the novels of Jane Austen. I am hoping to have these mostly outlined in February and then begin them in the next couple of months.

If you follow me on Instagram (@courtneysreads) then you may have seen updates about the first draft of my story Midnight Horse. I completed this draft in December and now it’s patiently waiting for me to give it a read through in the coming weeks. I want to let it sit for a while before diving back in, but I am really excited to try and fix it. I’m sure it needs a lot of work. But I love it and the characters, so I’m looking forward to the challenge!

From 2017 into the middle of 2018 I drafted another fantasy that I really want to revisit. The draft is not clean at all and I think I’m going to completely redo it. That was more like a zero draft, just a way to get things on paper, and now I want to outline it and give it the attention it deserves. I do love the characters and was having a lot of fun with it, but it needs a lot of tweaking to make it work how I see it in my mind.

So the short of it is: I am writing, I will continue to write, and I hope that I can clean some of these stories into something presentable so that you can enjoy them with me.