SUPER AWESOME NEWS!!!
Jana has sent me a copy of Ash’s cover, as I stated in my last post. Not quite done yet. I get all dancing happy when I see it.
I’ve had some really good news on Survival:Heaps, too.
It’s amazing, what happens when you have something to celebrate. This little kick jolt has gotten me back into Oak, as I also said before. Getting much happier with the storyline and how it’s progressing. I’ve been picking at it- a piece here, piece there. Same as picking at the housework. I have clear floor space again. Whoo-hoo!
I think Oak’s gonna work out like Rowan did, where I write and write and write and add in all sorts of stuff and it winds up being three books, then I scale it back. This is cool for me. From Hawthorne, I have a background character named Uncle Timo, and I’ve just pulled him back in for some follow up. A lot of story threads are concluding in books 7 and 8, picking up others previously introduced. I’ve also been picking at book 11, Ivy, again, to sort of know where I’m driving.
Seeing Jana’s interpretation of Ash… I’m just awestruck. Awestruck. She’s got a way of pulling details right out of my head with how I picture them, putting her twist on it, and coming out with something where I’m like- “WHAT??? How’d you DO that?” And it just inspires me to put more details in my scenes and bits of images that come out of no where, filling in all those cool background stuff like a really well designed movie set. Love it.
Well, enough of my drooling. Getting back to research on animal diseases, moss, blood spatter, and fungus. I know, thrilling right? When I get it all in, I know there’ll be some glitter bomb that goes off in my head again and come up with weirdness that works. Already putting some interesting twists into Survival:Chili from all this, and that’s a card game!
Have fun, all!