The Stage-Update

So… Instead of writing, which I should be doing a lot more of, I was playing with a few cover ideas for The Stage. It sometimes helps light a fire under my butt to actually have the cover in advance of finishing the actual book. It's kind of like visualizing the goal line in a football game. If you know where your going you can map out a way of getting there. The hardest part of any book for me is getting the outline done. I tried writing without an outline in the past, you know the whole Stephan King "Just Write and you'll figure it out along the way" approach. But that really didn't work for me, because it was too random and scattered and allowed me to go off in tangents that really didn't advance the story very much. A prime example of this was when I was writing The Rock Star I went off on a tangent on the first chapter and sixty five thousand words later had a completely different story. Which is my round about way of saying I need to have the outline to keep me centered and focused on the story at hand. I spend hours and days in Apple's Numbers moving lines up, back, and over, while adding, and subtracting ideas as I work out the outline of a story. But once it's done I can really pound through writing the book because I know exactly where I'm going and how to get there.

The outline for The Singer is done. I'm currently pounding through it. It's going to take me a few months. If I didn't have to work, or spend time with my lovely girlfriend, or play with my rambunctious dogs, or eat or sleep I would get it done a whole lot quicker. But sometimes life just gets in the way of writing.

If you're waiting for the next installment in the Rock Series…Thanks! That means you read the other two books and I really appreciate that. Trust me this next book will be worth the wait. It'll tie everything together and throw in some heavy duty twists along the way.

In the meantime head over to rockhardpress.com and leave me a comment about which cover you like...I'll be looking forward to your replies