Hello, I know it has been a while since I have posted on here last and I just want to let you few readers that I have know I haven't forgotten about you. Life, unfortunately, gets in the way sometimes and I can't keep up with my blogs of my writing the way that I would like too. Currently, I have a short story that I have completed called "Will the Last Person to Leave Please Turn Out the Sun". I wrote this story partially as an exercise and partially because I needed a short break from "Tears of the Western Moon" after killing off one of my favorite characters as well as a sub-character.
The way that this short story was an exercise for me was that I find it very easy to tell a story as long as it has a large word count. So in light of that, I set the restriction of 2k words for this short story. One I finished it it came out to around 1850 words which is well within my limit that I set and I am happy with the results, now I just wait for initial reactions from my first draft reader before I start edits...
As for work on "Tears of the Western Moon" I had gotten up to a word count of 39k words but needed to go back and delete 6k of that 39k.... very discouraging. But I have since added 1k back to it and am now at 34k words. I find myself struggling to continue this novel because the death of... the character who I killed off still depresses me and now I have to face the fact that she is dead and move on with the story. I will finish this book. Then I will edit as I did with "Shadows of the Western Moon" and after edits are finished I will move on to the third novel in the trilogy.
Anyway, just wanted to post an update for anyone that was interested.
