I posted a while back, talking about overcoming a difficult scene, only now I just got over another difficult scene and finally broke into clear waters. I am on page 151 of my second draft, and I still have a lot of ground to cover. In my second draft, I have had to change two major events in my plot, only to find I like it much better this way. I came up with what I consider better answers to the questions it left me asking after finishing my first draft. While I struggle with the character relationships, simply because I know how they end up liking or disliking each other by the end of the book, I often find myself changing things where they act as if they’ve known each other for a long time, whereas I’m still early in the story and they haven’t developed the relationships they have now.

But it’s keeping me on my toes, that and I’ve changed(added) a lot of scenery and really spent time filling out my book, making sense of scenes that left me with questions, making clear scenes that had no structure or real importance to the reader. As the author, I felt they had importance, but a reader would not see it as I have(and do). Overall, I’ve been impressed at the radical change in my writing and description. I touched briefly on a few things before, and I’ve caught myself bringing into focus more minute details of the ongoing around the characters, placing the characters more into the scene, as before, I painted a picture, then let the actors have free reign of the entire plot, not bothering to have them interact with the ‘props’.

I took part in the writers meeting at Kenya’s house, met some great people and have a whole new excitement for writing, and completing my manuscript for submission. I feel almost 100% about my work so far, although I need to make a few changes as I have recently discovered some things about my plot. All that’s lacking is proper sentence structure, and I’m not sure how to string together actions with dialogue. After I get that figured out and probably a few other things, watch out world, do I have a story to tell.

So, just to let you know where I am. I have finished my first draft of my story. I am about 80 or so pages into my second draft which has covered about 30 pages of my first draft. I think this book is going to breach 500 pages or so. If it keeps up the way it has been, it could easily be 500-600 pages long. But we’ll see how much I need to add.

I think things are going very well. I’ve experienced a few hicups trying to fill in the details of my very, very rough first draft, but with persistance, I have worked through them, and I feel the second draft is becoming more and more like a final draft. I am certain that I will need a thourough read over by someone once I finish the second draft to see where I am lacking, where I need to improve and overall what they felt about the story.

I feel that my writing has greatly improved from the style and proper format I used in my first draft and am excited to say, that while it’s not perfect, I am sure it’s getting better. I have been successfully writing nearly everyday, thanks to NANOWRIMO pushing me to write daily through November.

So, that’s where I stand.  Thanks for all the support.

So, I’ve written to page 14, but I feel like I need to redo some of the stuff I’ve written. The current scene isn’t working out as I had planned, and I feel like I’m being told that that’s not how it needs to be. So, I’ll change it and see if that works out better.

Nothing else to report. It’s been a bit busy due to the holidays, but I’m looking forward to Christmas and the break it will bring. I’m sure the girls will be busy with the fun things from Mom and Dad, and that should give me time to think.

I started to work on my book a little bit. I got seven pages written. I think they are good, full of excitement and action. I am going to email my daily work to a sibling or my mother to look over. I just need to figure out who will have the time. In the meantime. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself. I just want to take the time needed to make each page great! So, I may not advance in pages, but the work will be quality work.

Few people have seen tasks performed above human capabilities. Many people have heard of these unexplained phenomenons. All feared those who posses what is called throughout the galaxies as, ‘the gift’. Kya is a headstrong eight-teen year old who possesses the gift, but in it’s purest form. Orphaned at the age of eight and having no recollection of who she is, or where she came from, she struggles for life in the slums of the wastelands on Corin, a harsh desert planet. Using these powers she does not understand herself, she is able to survive against all odds.

Follow her as she seeks out answers to the questions; Who am I? Why can I do these things? What is the gift? Watch her struggle to learn how to trust people and allow herself to gain friendships. Betrayal, love, fighting and adventure all await within: The Bloodline: Worn.