Writing 2025

 

So I am able, after 15 days, to talk about my future plans. This year, I am going to continue writing and finish my current project known as #BeeFlyCrow. After numerous starts and stops, I've finally finished a detailed outline and proposal for what I am doing and chosen not only what I want to tell, but how. Stylistically I am moving into new territory. I also saw this image posted by Zoe on Facebook last year and snatched it up, because I had read all the books besides Fourth Wing, which I am now reading. But I began to understand how to focus my work by rereading the discussion that went with this image. I am writing a Fantasy plotted book with Romance Vibes, what some people might call a pastoral fantasy with a scattering of action scenes. It is plot intensive like Uprooted by Naomi Novik, written in the third person present tense of The Once and Future Witches, and has the fairy tale feeling of The Night Circus. Romance is not the plot, but its vibe definitely is. It's my tribute to Victorian and Portal fantasy. It will be finished in 2025. That is the promise I gave myself last November when I chose a new MMC and a new way of telling the story. I would never have suspected a few years ago that I would write anything in present tense. It's almost ironic. I did have help in making these decisions.

In order this make this dream come true, I have had to make some hard decisions on how I spend my time and what I give my attention to, because I need space to create and think. I cannot do all things. So I have reduced my social media time, my TV time, and yes, the time I give to people and other interest. Self care is needed to do this work, which requires a lot of emotional and physical capital. I had to break some stubborn habits. This post and others on social media today all bring together my desire to make real change. Later...