Working a lot - I am freelance so it is a good thing - so I have been off stage left for a while now. As far as my personal endeavors, I have been writing on my main novel on and off; l have two going currently. I am up over 130,000 words and not hit the editorial phase yet. Thinking it may well turn into a trilogy or at least two books. Those that have read it, friend and stranger alike, have said it would make a great screenplay for a movie; which keeps me going, I love hearing that.

I run a writer’s group here locally and online, Word Whimsy, and we just launched our writer’s group zine, Three Dollar Squirrel. We are accepting submissions for Issue 2 if any of you would like to participate. I post one question each month on the writing process and it publishes on the 1st of the next month. We have several well-known authors including Patricia Telesco so I am thrilled with the response we have been getting. I’ve gotten several new participants just since the first issue came out last week.

My group is having meetings every two weeks now for the anthology we are putting together. It has been good motivation for me to finish some past stories and start new ones. We have been reading each other’s work aloud, making feedback notes, and discussing story flow and continuity. It has worked really well and we are all looking forward to our next meeting. The local group is holding closed meetings at my house but the online portion of the group is still open to anyone. The anthology is going to be fabulous by what I have seen so far of everyone’s work. I am really proud of them.

Speaking of which, time to hit the storyboarding…