Random Thoughts

Lucky Me

I do consider myself very lucky. My oldest daughter puts up with my writerly weirdness and even thinks it's cool. It's nice to be appreciated, lol. She also does my cover art and does an amazing job. On top of that, she's also willing to sit and listen to me read what I'm working on and help me over rough patches. Yes, I'm lucky.





One drawback to reading to Brianna? She's very opinionated. "The fight has to go this way." or "That's just waaaaay too over-the-top sickly romantic." Yesterday it was "No, Mom, you can't kill him."





"He" being a character we've known for less than half a page. Why? Because his dialogue is funny. "But you could write his story next." Oh, no. No more Pantheon after this one. I'm taking a break and writing more fantasy and fairy tales, lol. This sci-fi stuff is HARD! I have a feeling she'd going to fight me on this one. Ok, so I'll just wound him badly but I'm not writing him his own story.





Still, the help she gave me yesterday will get me through chapter 20 and into more the more action oriented part fo the story. Things should go easier for a while. Maybe I'll finish the book next year. Sure. After the apocolypse. I think that's entirely do-able.