Pardon the dust. I'm still doing some housework and getting my bearing. It's been some time since I've been here on blogspot and it has new things for me to learn.
I will get just a few of my favorite sites and blogs listed and try not to hang too many pictures on the sidebar. I like an uncluttered place...
Blog theme? Not as much to pick from as other blog providers but that's okay. After trying a few, I like this one. I might change it for Christmas. And learn how to customize.
Eventually I will get into a posting routine.
Anyway...let me unpack Kingslyn. That's my novel set in Medieval Cambridgeshire during the war between Stephen and Queen Maud. Okay, I can't hide the fact that I am a Queen Maud fan. I believe she was the true ruler genetically, legally, and by appointment in the king's will, and Stephen was the usurper. But the story is about a Priory and life in a convent. It spans the life of Mariah from orphanned toddler to young woman. I started writing it as a trilogy but might edit it down to a three-part novel. And Kingslyn is just a working title.I will eventually have an official title..when I think of one.
Another work out of the box is a story I am converting into a story poem called Cielito Beach. Part fantasy, part horror, it is an episodic work currently in prose centered around the disappearance of a young woman, but it's a story about a town. I'm experimenting on the story poem angle.
Ahhh....Out of His League. This one is dusty indeed! I started this one in 2004. A story about the curious death of a talk show host. I have gotten further along on this novel than all the others because it was a NaNoWriMo novel.
A little box no bigger than a stationery..this one contains my collection of poetry. Some had been posted on other sites. I will post some here, maybe editing and updating some.
Another NaNovel, The Quality of Mercy, an urban fantasy about a doted-on suburban housewife/mom with a tremendous imagination who yearns to be a playwright. Kinda like Walter Mitty meets Shakespeare.
Speaking of Shakespeare. I was late in joining a challenge to rewrite a Shakesperean play into steampunk and therefore could not submit, but I went ahead and wrote one based on Othello. Set in Victorian New York, the Iago character is a woman.
My newest, untitled story set in a war about a young girl who turned sniper. It is based on a true story.
Another untitled Nanovel set pre-Flood that features Noah and his family, specifically his son Japhet. This one got tougher and tougher to write because of the evil of the time. It has Nephilims. The main character is the great-granddaughter of a ruling Nephilim. The story is about steadfastness and transformation. It looks and sounds contemporary with contemporary dialogues.
A miscellaneous box of bits. Scenes, character profiles, story ideas, dialogues, monologues I wrote for my daughter for her auditions, pieces of narratives, even a children's story I began two years ago.
Taking a break for tea. Those are my works. Then there are books I've read I want to talk about, not necessarily review..or yes, a review. And of course, the writing process.
It's nice to look at the stack of writing. A majority of them will need editing, research, rewrites. I will write about those things, too.
Note to self: NaNoWriMo is one month away. I have no problems writing for it. BUT, I am planning to move to another state and may miss it for the first time since 2003.
Anyway. Tea time.
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