The Ready Writer

Hello Readers! Just a quick update to let you all know that I am taking a hiatus for the rest of 2016.  Right now I am working on a short story and spending holiday time with loved whens during the times that I am not swamped with the extra hours I picked up at both of my jobs. I have some plans for the blog in 2017.  Writing updates and horror history will continue.  But what do you all think of some sort of book reviews? Not on any sort of regular schedule, just as I finish reading books? Just a thought. Anyway, have a Merry Holiday, a Happy New Year, and I'll see you in 2017!

Hello Readers! Sorry I have been away.  Last week was sort of...well...not great.  But I did get a little bit of work done. I am in the process of typing up Act I.  I have typed up chapter one so far.  As I type up Act I, I have some goals I want to hit: Delete all of the other POVs except for one of them.  I was attempting to do a multiple POV thing, and I didn't like it, and so I have decided to do it from a single POV.  I know this means that I am going to be deleting like, half of what I have hand written, but that's how writing goes sometimes.  And overall, I think it will help my book be better. Change one of my characters from a mystical/fantasy type character to more of a mortal psychic character.  My character needs to be "gifted" but she was feeling a little too deus ex machina for my taste, so I'm tweaking her a bit. This doesn't seem like a tremendous amount of work, but I'm not quite ready to do big edits yet.  I'm j...