Becoming an adult is scary. Even with fang and fur.
This is the first two stories of a series.
Coming December 31st, 2009
New Ickford Manor
Lush feasts, sword play and pageantry were only fantasies until nature’s fury casts a group of renaissance enthusiasts into the reality of medieval England.
In this fun read, you will see what happens as we share a trilogy of erotic tales.
This is a new layout (theme) for my blog. I’m experimenting with making things a bit more readable as well as easier to navigate.
Opinions welcome, of course.
The NaNoWriMo challenge is over. Shifter Born is in the editor’s hands for the final round and I took the holiday weekend off to party with some old and dear friends.
Now we are in the holiday season and for many of us, that means making lists, sorting priorities and focusing our attention on edits.
I was actually a bit surprised when I refreshed my ToDo list and realized that I have three novels and three short stories that need to be finished and submitted. Two of the short stories are sequels to Shifter Born (more on those, later).
Happy Holidays!
This past week was hectic to say the least. As I mentioned in my last post, I was on a roll with my NaNoWriMo novel and this all came to a head, early Saturday Morning.
I woke up at 3:30 in the morning with images and dialogue running through my head. Nothing would do but I had to get it out. Finally, just before noon, I wrapped up a really ugly first draft of my new novel. It was officially at 50,006 words. It is now on the back burner, while I work on last-minute edits for Shifter Born and a surprise project.
It will be a little while before I start the first round of edits on Cloud Dancer and by then, I’m thinking it will undergo a name change.
More to come!
Wow! I’ve been on a roll, today. I’m finally into the really exciting ‘meat’ of Cloud Dancer. This is one of the parts I’ve been waiting and so far, I like how it’s come out.
It was rather hard to imagine an air-sea battle between a destroyer and an airship. After all, even in the early stages of World War II, it was a given that airships were too slow and made way too big of targets to be of any serious use in an offensive role. They were considered very expensive transport for rich folk.
Since I was determined to not only fight my airship, but to have her win, it took a lot of day-dreaming to work it out in my head, before the first words hit paper. With that in mind, I managed to break thirty seven thousand words before noon!
Oh! And one other thing to report… I’ve started another drawing. This time, I needed to have a firm idea of how and where the Cloud Singer was armed and how she would relate to an enemy destroyer and the Cloud Dancer. With any luck, I should be able to wrap up the new set of plans this evening and I’ll share some of them with y’all.
Keep on writing!
I was spinning my wheels a bit, while trying to write and I realized I had only a very vague idea of what the Cloud Dancer looked like. This was not acceptable, so I took some time to draw up a rough sketch that gave me an idea of proportion, crew size, armaments, etc.
So, it looks like I’ll share this first peek at my dieselpunk warship.
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Opinions and questions are appreciated.
One of my weaknesses involves apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, etc…
This just came out of the oven a few minutes ago!
Thanks, Bren!
Wow! Time passes when you’re having fun! It has been a week since my last post and I’m now up to over seventeen thousand words in Cloud Dancer.
So far, there have been two romantic interludes, two battle sequences, many historical references and some required expository text. Things are shaping up nicely and I’ve not even revealed the Cloud Dancer.
Just to give you an idea of some of the research I’ve been doing, here are just a few of the more than two dozen links I’ve bookmarked just for this novel.
http://www.prinzeugen.com/SBOATIND.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waychinicup_River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS2U_Kingfisher
Those are just part of establishing the initial backstory.
