Giving this Blog thing another try

So, it's been a while. Like a really long while. I'd pretty much given up on the blog thing. But now I've got two books out, and I'm getting ready to publish another...and maybe it's time. This kind of writing is hard for me. Writing fiction about other people? As long as I'm not fighting serious writers' block, that's easy. Talking about myself? I forget how to words. If you'll bear with me, we'll see if I can actually do a regular blog. Maybe I do have something to say.

In the year (!) since my last blog post, I've actually been writing. I wrote a book that is now in the editing phase and I have been busily working on another. You can find details, if you're interested, on this site. I've also lost my long term writing companion--my cat, Meg. She was with me for 20 years and, despite having three other pets, I felt lost without her. In July, little Alannah joined our household. She's a wild fluffball of energy, and she's brought some much needed fresh, baby energy to our home.

Most importantly, I found my muse. Or, rather, refound her. She'd been missing so long, I was afraid she was never coming back. I'd almost resigned myself to only writing during Nanowrimo, pulling out the words like some kind of creative tug of war. Then, one day last October, I was watching a reality TV show and a random song--not random to my muse, but a song by a singer I listened to a lot when I first started writing many, many years ago--hit me like a kick to the head, and it all came rushing back. I could create, I could dream, again. It's been amazing, and both Bhree ("Healing Hands") and Lexi ("Living on a Memory") were born. By unintentional accident, their journeys start in very similar ways--the death of a loved one that makes them lash out in their grief, but their stories are very, very different. Bhree's story is very much a journey back to the light, while Lexi's is a descent into darkness. I am loving spending time with them, especially Lexi, so much that they've become real to me. Bhree has been a fun romp through the past, a return to the things that made me love stories and reading. Lexi has been an exciting way to explore writing things I never have before. Darkness. Brutality. The concepts of right and wrong and if it's possible for darkness and light to exist equally in the same person.

I guess that's it for me for my foray back into attempted bloghood. We'll see if I can keep at it and let everyone out there...probably no one...know what I'm up to writing wise. If not, at least I tried. LOL

Remember: if you want to write but you're afraid of making a mistake or that it won't be good enough, you can always edit something you've written, but you can't edit words that aren't there.

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