Crossroads

Bone Whisperer has been stalled for a bit. My muse has dropped another story idea for Vella on me and I wrote a bit (1,456 words) on it this last week. I also wrote a bit on Emergent and put it up on Vella. But BW has stalled because my muse is being fickle right now and going off on a tangent or two. I need to wrangle her and get BW finished so I can move on to Ghostwolf and Elemental Voice books.

EV has one more book and a novella to go to be finished and Ghostwolf has two books to go. Then there’s the Time-Lost books, the Fallborn books, the Elemental Detective novellas, the Mortal Voice books, the Alliance books, and the dozens of other series I have in my head. My writing queue is miles long. Or should that be parsecs? Either way it is very long and unfortunately I am not a fast writer.

So I’m at another crossroad. Should I concentrate on only my Vellas right now or on finishing my two book series? Or should I try juggling them all? At least for a bit.

That’s what’s going on right now. I’m juggling everything. AS I’ve said I have soo many stories in my queue that I want to get out. I just wish I was a faster writer. But I know ‘Don’t compete, Don’t compare’. However it’s hard when other writers can complete a book in a month and it takes me at least 6 or more. It frustrates me. I’ve tried to write faster, do outlines, etc but that stuff just doesn’t work for me. My muse doesn’t like it and my writing suffers more with writer’s block.

This year I already have one book out, book 4 in EV. I had planned to have BW out this year as well but I’m putting it up in Vella instead. I had also planned to have at least half of book 3 of Ghostwolf done. Book 3 is started at least, however it is not even a third of the way done. So this year is not going as I originally planned.

Hopefully Vella will make up for not publishing another book this year. I will give it until January to see if it’s viable for me. Vella is serial storytelling where the author puts up episodes (chapters) and readers pay tokens to read each episode. I’ve been told it’s good and that I should try it. So I am.

Stay tune for the next installment.