Hello, everyone! I hope y’all are doing well!
This week has been a pretty good week, all things considered. I’ve had some exciting things come up while writing and plotting this week. I also had the opportunity to read and knit a bit. I’m looking forward to seeing what this coming week will bring.
I made some good progress with my current series. Drafting Book 10 is still going well, if a bit slower than I would prefer to get the first draft down. In the meantime, I’ve also be doing a good bit of plotting (and pondering) on the last couple books of the series. I still have a few things I need to figure out with regard to how exactly things get resolved, but I am slowly making progress. I’ve also been unintentionally figuring out some background stuff for several of my characters, so that’s always cool. It’s mostly relatively little things that really add a bit of depth to assorted characters and their relationships with other characters. I’m also looking forward to being able to take some of that new information and apply it to earlier books in the series as a way to round out those characters. (I’m once again glad that I am drafting this series before publishing, particularly since I’m learning things in Book 10 and Book 11 that influence–even minorly– things going all the way to the beginning of the series.)
With regard to my reading this past week, I finished Diane Duane’s Swordhunt. Overall, it was good. However getting to the end of the book, my immediate thought was that this book and the next book were probably technically one book that had been split due to length… I definitely got a chuckle when I picked up the next book in the series, Honor Blade and saw “Chapter Six” on the first page. I’ve also picked up a couple books that I started a while back but haven’t actually finish. The current one of those that I am reading is Agatha Christie’s :The ABC Murders. It’s actually the first Agatha Christie book I’ve read, and so far it has been interesting. I’m about halfway through that one, so I’m hoping to put a dent in it this coming week.
My greyscale-and-rainbow fisherman’s rib scarf is coming along nicely. I’m about three-quarters of the way done. I’m really liking the effect. I mentioned in last week’s post that I had started to weave in the ends as I went… that didn’t last as long as I was hoping, so I’ve got a lot of ends to weave in. It’s all part of doing stripes though (particularly if you don’t have any self-striping yarn).
This upcoming week, I plan to keep working on drafting Book 10, and plotting Book 11. I also plan to read more of The ABC Murders and Honor Blade. I get the feeling those tasks will likely take up a good bit of time. As for additional tasks, I’m thinking I might try out something I heard about at DragonCon called February Album Writing Month (FAWM). The goal is to write fourteen songs over the course of February. For more information, you can check FAWM.org, and you can find my write-up about the panel at DragonCon in my post: My Experience at DragonCon 2021. Admittedly, I don’t have experience writing music, but I have taken a bit of a stab at poetry. I’ve also been kind of curious about what kinds of in-world poetry might exist for my current series. (For that, I blame Tolkien.) i don’t know how far I will actually get with the challenge, or even if any of the poems will actually end up in the series (as opposed to simply being background info), but it seems like it could be fun.
I think that’s everything for this update. Thanks for reading!
~ Theresa
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