That's one of the things that just happens when you live alone with a few dozen fictional characters running around loose in your skull. Sorry about that. Hope everyone who celebrates had a good day!
I wrote. Just like the day before and the day after. I'm writing my little fingers off. So far, 131,000 words this NaNoWriMo month. And today isn't over.
I've been busy on two projects, as you might be aware. The first is a Wayzgoose project that will appear here probably about May. Wild Woods is the sequel to the previously posted City Limits. I expect there will be only two books in this series, so all the open plot lines left in City Limits should get closed as I write the last three chapters of the Wild Woods this week. Then it will sit on my editors' desks fermenting during December and I'll start rewriting in January.
The second project is now being funneled to Pixel the Cat and Old Rotorhead for editing and I'm getting chapters back. Rotorhead has been on vacation in Europe but I expect he'll be getting his two cents in before I'm ready to start posting Part I here in January.
Double-Take is the story of an eighty-year-old man cast back into his fourteen-year-old body, only to find there are significant differences between the reality he knew as a kid and the reality he now faces. All his reasonable memories are intact, but it is his experience rather than his memory that he will need to get him through high school.
I'm having fun with it and comments from advance readers seem to indicate they are enjoying the story as it's being written. It's great to get that kind of feedback from my patrons.
Well, I just thought I needed to give you a little update.
One more thing I'll touch on and bury down here at the bottom so no one actually sees it. I try to leave comments open on my stories so readers can respond and discuss them. I don't participate in the comments section unless I'm asked a direct question. It's not a place for me to try to explain things or justify them. I pop in and answer. I read the comments every day, though.
I will cut off comments on a story if they degenerate into people trying to argue about things that aren't relevant to the story. C'mon, guys. I write plenty of shit you can complain about or argue about. Don't drag in irrelevant political arguments. Exchange Facebook addresses if you want to engage in that senseless shit.
I also greatly appreciate your corrections sent through email and I try to get them corrected as quickly as possible (which means after November). These come in as anything from someone spotting an incorrect pronoun or extra quotation mark to language experts who take the time to correct my German or Spanish or Latin or whatever else I'm pretending to speak. I really appreciate this as it improves the story for a wide range of readers. Keep sending those cards and letters!
Thanks.