This Week

This is going to be a busy week, not only on the personal front but on the writing front as well. Witchstorm Rising will be uploaded to Amazon later today. (I’ll post a snippet this afternoon. I’m not on my work computer right now.) I need to polish the blurb, register the ISBN and decide how much time I want for pre-orders. Right now I’m thinking about only a week.

I’m also getting back to writing. As I noted in Friday’s post, I have 3 or 4 projects already drafted, some closer to final version than others. But one of the others that are in a rougher state hit me over the weekend, so I may go to it for a bit and let the others sit. If I do, it leaves me with a problem I’m not sure how to deal with.

Before I get to the problem, there is a reason for why I may do it this way instead of working on one of the projects that are almost done. I learned with Witchstorm Rising that my personal life demands mean I am not writing as cleanly as I used to. There is too much “noise” in my life right now. I don’t get the extended periods at my desk I once did. Not only do I need to slow down the writing process but I need to give a project time to sit after the final draft and before I do a final search and correct for those pesky typos.

Which brings me to the problem I discovered over the weekend when the not ready for primetime project decided it wanted to hit up up side of the head again. Before deciding if I wanted to return to it right now or keep it on the back burner, I decided to re-read the latest in that series (and I’m not going to say which one. Bwahahahaha). Now, the book is good but it isn’t up to what I consider my standard. Not only are the proofing issues that got by me but also by my editor but there are a couple of plot holes that shouldn’t be there. So now I’m not only considering whether I want to progress in the series right now or let it sit—and it has been sitting for some time because I’m still not sure where the series is going even though it is a limited series—or if I want to open the can of worms of re-editing the previous title, fixing the typos and closing the plot holes.

And, no, it isn’t as easy as it sounds because if I do the rewrite, I then have to convince Amazon to push through the new version to everyone who bought or downloaded the current version because Amazon no longer does an auto-update of e-books.

So I have to add that to my pile of things to decide in the next day or two after I get Witchstorm Rising out the door.

But, the good news (I think) is that I’m back. I’m writing. Life continues, not always the way I like but continues is good. And I’m writing.

Until this afternoon when I’m on the “real” laptop and can post a snippet for you guys. Thanks for hanging around!