Howdy folks! The spring equinox is almost upon us and I am bracing for impact.
Because it’s allergy season. [dramatic music]
Actually, I’m bracing for impact for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which being that I work in retail as a day job. With everything going on right now in the world I’ve just kinda made my peace with the fact that I’ll probably be sick sometime in the next month or so. I’ve been trying to get as much voice-based stuff done as possible so that I don’t fall behind as badly. As such I haven’t done a whole lot of writing in the past month or so, as most of my efforts have been concentrated on The Dawnbreaker’s Saga.
What Am I Working On?
Hostage: I have the whole story! It melded together better than I expected it would, and I’m excited to see where the story takes them if we continue it. (We’re Lowells – we can’t not write trilogies.) I’ve got the full manuscript now and have been slowly plucking away at my own mistakes whilst also trying to find places with extraneous wordage on both ends. It’s a BIG book. With any luck I’ll have that back to the other Lowell by the end of March. (Along with, perhaps, a cover sketch. I have a few ideas.)
Charge: Hit a wall with this one wherein I realized just how much work it was going to be to catch up with my writing in the form of artwork to go along with it. I still think I can do it, but since I’ve got Hostage to work on, it’s on pause. When I hit the last “okay, now what?” section my wordcount for the manuscript was at 29k – and having planned the first chapter out in comic form… it’s going to be a while before I catch up with myself.
Scripting: Most of what I’ve been writing lately have been scripts for the Dawnbreakers’ Saga. The plots are starting to converge in a big way so I’ve had to get my ducks in a row as far as first meetings are concerned. I have a few big production episodes coming up, but I also have some ideas for silly things to do in the meantime if I do fall behind and end up unable to record for some length of time. 😀
The Asgard Series: I have been told in no uncertain terms that Raylene and Dublin need a sequel. I’ll be honest, I expected this to be a one-off and then I’d go back to the Five Realms, but I’ve honestly had more fun writing Loki alone than most of what I was working on before. So, a sequel is in the veeerry early, babiest planning stages. What I like to call, “percolation time.” Hopefully it doesn’t take me as long to come up with a decent conflict as it did for the first one – seriously, Utgard took me a year and a half. All I know about the next installment is that I want more Loki, more of the kids (obviously), and possibly more Heimdall shenanigans – he did, after all, come up with the, “Let’s dress Thor as Freya to get his hammer back,” idea.
That’s about it for this month! With any luck, April will be a little more peaceful. See you again soon!