Overflowing emptiness

Has your brain ever had so much going on inside of it that it seems empty and useless? As if a torrent of thoughts is crammed against an invisible dam?

That was how my brain has been for bits and pieces of the past year or so. I know there are things in there. They dribble out bit by bit, showing me hints of the mass behind the wall. Yet they wouldn’t fully come.

Well, the dam has broken, so now my problem has become trying to harness everything pouring out. I desperately want to write six stories at once. If I could just magically think them onto paper, I’d be good. Alas, I’m just some mundane human with enough creativity to find all sorts of ways to procrastinate.

That said, I am currently working on several things. My main WIP is Exposed Essence, the final story in the Soul Fiend series. Originally, I wanted to do a total of five books- three with Zella and Earth, one with Grace showing the Angel side, and a final one where they right the wrongs of their own planet. Unfortunately, the series hasn’t done that well and the books(because of their size) take a long time to write. They’re also more costly to produce because it’s basically two books(by average size of my genre) in one. That means I’m cutting it off at three. I do plan to leave it open enough that I can come back and show the things I originally wanted to show, but I also will close it enough that the story isn’t left dangling. It’s getting there, though.

The second book I’m working on steadily is the second of The Unruly series, Crashing Storm. New characters are showing up, and it should be a fun ride.

I’m also doing bits and pieces in other stories as the scenes come to me. Those are Smokey Shadows(the Cassie and Willy story) and Wielding(the dragon story). I’ve also started something that is very romance light. It will be about a wolf shifter who is a bounty hunter. Along with that, I’ve set aside a bit of time to work on some things for Vella. I have two going for that. One will be a contemporary romance and the second is a comedic sort of story.

And of course, there’s all the world building I’m doing for future stories. I have two that I’m seriously mapping out. One is an epic fantasy about an elf-like species, while the other is an epic fantasy(leaning to grimdark) about necromancers. These will (hopefully) be more intricate and soaring than my previous stories.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to work wise. I hope to have both of my main books written this month, but a lot will depend on factors that I have no control over. I guess we’ll see how it goes. Until next time…