I stopped myself from writing this a few weeks ago, because I didn't want to post it on April First, also known as "Avoid the Internet Day".
Anyway, things are trucking along in the Jeffries household. Life stuff is starting to calm down and it's been easier to find time to write over the last few weeks. I picked the novel up again and have been chipping away at it in pieces, but I also got distracted when someone gave me an idea for a completely new story.
The muse, she is fickle, and sometimes when she decides to strike it's best to just roll with it.
So I'm now 10,000 words into writing that, and I'm expecting it to turn into at least twice that. Once that's done there are two more follow-up volumes in the works, and eventually the whole thing will probably turn into its own book. It's neither in the Two Vines universe nor related in any way to the novel I'm theoretically working on right now.
What's got me so fascinated is that it's such a departure for me. Volume 1 (they're too big to be 'chapters', although that's probably how they'll get posted) is seriously slow-burn, and it's kind of a creepy ghost story in places. I don't love the suspense/horror genre, and I don't think this goes too far in that direction, but it's more like that than anything else I've ever written. We'll see how it turns out; you'll be the first to read it.
As a final note, I've been thinking about starting a Discord server. Several authors seem to be doing that as a way of building a community of readers. I suspect I'm neither popular enough nor prolific enough to warrant such a thing, but if you feel otherwise, drop me a note and let me know.
As always, thanks for reading. – chuck