I can tell you right now that my favourite state of being is having a finished first draft sitting there looking like a lump of shite, ready to be formed into a fully fledged story. The joy of knowing the hard part is done and the fun is still to come. I love that. I really love that.
Currently, I’m in the midst of first drafts. Yes, drafts.
I’ve got a novella to finish for the ‘Spellbound bookshop’ (Scattered on Cloth) series AND [Indigo Romeo Lima] to write for the Veronica Tracey Spy/PI series.
I’m a lot closer to finishing the novella. 🙂
Anywho, that’s where I am currently. Not finished anything. Still in the painful part of the process. The grey matter heavy part for [IRL], not so much for ‘Scattered on Cloth’. It’s a different genre and doesn’t take anywhere near the cast of characters or depth of plot that [IRL] takes.
If I put my mind to it, I could have ‘Scattered’ finished by the end of the week. All it takes is for me to sit my arse down and write. I don’t have any research I need to do for that story because everything I need I already know, it’s part of who I am.
With the Spellbound Bookshop series I get to tap into things that are familiar and therefore easy for me to bring into a story.
That’s not the case for [IRL], well, not entirely anyway. The characters are people I enjoy and I know rather well (be sad if I didn’t considering they’re my creations), some stuff is familiar and easy, other things take grey matter and research and chats with people who know shit that I don’t know. It’s fun but it’s work. Once this first draft is done, then the real fun begins. Right now, I’m procrastinating like a fucking champ instead of writing.
I could’ve written at least two scenes in the time it’s taken me to write this blog post.
*Shakes head*
I wish I would just get on with it.
Also, I have been sick for week and still don’t have a voice that wants to stick around. Don’t feel too bad now though but you wouldn’t know that if you heard me trying to talk!

I did get to show Superman the new covers for the FBI-Byte Series tonight and he likes them. We both love sunsets and sunrises so he was bound to like them. 🙂