New Energy

Anyone following ‘Family Secrets’ has surely noticed that it’s been a little neglected over the past couple of weeks. Sorry about that. I guess I needed to recharge a little. At any rate, I’m feeling much more focused now and am anxiously awaiting the weekend so that I can crank out a few more chapters. I feel like the action is really picking up and moving towards some sort of resolution. I’m getting excited again!

I’ve also given some more thought to what happens after this little adventure is over for Charlee and Carter. Someone asked me a while back about the next installment of their story. My response was that I didn’t think there would be a next installment – that my second book would be something different. Charlee’s situation is a unique one and it didn’t make sense to me that it would carry on into another story. I think I’ve changed my mind, though. I really do like these characters and I’ve become much more interested in what happens to them after 'Family Secrets'. I had originally thought of using an epilogue at the end of this book, but I’ve pretty much decided against that. With my new plan, Charlee and Carter can live on in other books. I think it would be much more fun to see what happens to them along the way instead of having it thrown at you in a quick summary. What do you think?

On a different note, ‘Broken’ (the other story that I mentioned in my last post) has really taken hold of my brain. It’s not something I can crank out quickly because it’s a much more complicated story than ‘Family Secrets’. I also can’t ignore it. The solution? A new experiment! Since I don’t have the required 10,000 words (or a coherent storyline) Authonomy isn’t an option right now. So . . . . . . I will start a new blog dedicated solely to ‘Broken’. It will consist of character descriptions and random scenes. The beginning of that story is really the end. It starts in the present but keeps taking us back to different points in the past to tell the story of the main characters’ lives. Eventually, I hope to be able to string all the snippits together into an actual book. In the meantime, getting bits and pieces of it written down should satisfy that annoying nagging going on in the back of my brain.