And the madness begins…

I’m working on a story with Dick D, yup he’s alive, still in moving hell though. Remind me not to move. It sounds stressful.

Things are going well after a brief OMG this sucks moment on my part, apparently everyone else didn’t see an issue. But there was one, trust me on this. Yes, the setting was lovely, the prose eloquent and the sensory details were amazingly marvelous if I do say so myself, but it was stagnant. It needed conflict. Everyone said, “keep going.” I wanted to but inwardly I was shouting,”why? I don’t care. If I were a reader I’d close the book and try something else.” Yes, I’m extremely hard on myself, but hey, I can’t help it. Yes, I know somewhere out there some critic is going to rip it to shreds, that’s life. You can’t please everyone, I know this. I have to please me though. I have to know I wrote it to the best of my ability. If I don’t write it the way I feel best, then I’m cheating myself as well as the readers . Anyway, that set me back a few days trying to figure out how to add some tension. Today I got the break through and Dick agreed it would be a nice addition, so I’m hitting it hard and heavy this afternoon. I’m now back to being excited about writing it.

I’m learning more than I ever wanted to know about submarines. Well no not really, it’s all very interesting. Poor Dick probably feels like he as a two year old. I believe I’ve asked him everything except why the sky is blue. I’m going to owe him big time after this one.

Today, I’m finally going to get to meet and play with Captain Hotty. No that’s not his real name, but it’s what I’ve been calling him and something tells me his hero is going to stick the nickname on him too :) Call it a hunch. I’m hoping to have this one done by the 20th at the latest, but we’ll see. I may end up with edits for TEA during that time. Which I’m actually looking forward to. I miss Si and Pay. At any rate this one will be done by the first week of September, no ifs ands or buts about it. That’s the deadline.

Written by JL Langley

JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit. Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research)
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