The school year…not writing. I’ll be at that until the day I die and get to go and make whatever supreme being out there utterly insane. You’ve been warned, whatever you are!
I’m not going to say that I write as a survival mechanism, but this year, that was sort of the case. The writing, the stories, the creative stuff…that’s what kept me sane for the past ten months. I shouldn’t have been able to knock through a whole book in that space of time. When I look at the word counts for Moonstone Wish and the completion date of Lapis Blade, it does amount to a little over 100k words. That’s…a lot. Yes, I know, this is coming from someone who did a 50k word manuscript in three weeks. Shattered was the exception (I hope) to how I normally write. I don’t ever want to feel what seemed like a near-possession ever again. So, if there’s any other objects in my house thinking of doing that, don’t. Please. I’ve got enough on my plate (I’m looking at YOU, 2500 year old pendant. Don’t even think about it.)
So what’s next on the docket after I finish Moonstone Wish, which might be in the next couple of weeks? Unless my brain throws a monkey wrench, I’d like to at least start Ruby Memory before the end of summer. Now, will that happen? Not sure. I’ve got a Gothic-horror-romance that’s been brewing in my brain for a while, as well as a memoir compilation of my years of teaching high school science. How forceful those two projects get remains to be seen. I have a feeling the memoir might take a back seat to the Gothic one, but I’ve been wrong before. Besides, if I wait a year or two with that one, I’ll have even more stories to add to it. Or I could just make it from my years in Linn. I’m not quite sure how to handle that one yet.
If I do start Ruby Memory, I’m going to have to get through the diaries of the Romanov girls. I’ve gotten through a chunk of Anastasia’s, and am going to try to finish that one and Maria’s by the end of next week. At least with the younger ones, it is very interesting to see the sibling dynamic play out. Those four really did organize themselves into pairs…older and younger. This isn’t to say they weren’t close as a group. If anything, these four seemed tighter-knit than most sibling units I have seen. I think part of this can be ascribed to their personalities and their comparative isolation from other kids their age. I would have been interested to see how they would have developed friendships outside their close circle, because from their writings, they certainly would have been open to the idea.
Hilary
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