Well, sort of. I’m sitting in the media center, because I still don’t have a computer that plays well with the internet. But, I’ve decided that it’s past time I get back to blogging. This new site is still a work in progress, but I’ll be working on getting it the way I want it over the next couple months.

So, what have I been up to in the time since I let my other blog fall to the wayside? A lot, though I don’t know if I really have much to show for it. I have decided that I’m definitely splitting Eternity’s Price in half, and so I have a completed (though still not exactly in order) first draft for the first half that I am leaning towards calling Eternity’s Sacrifice. I’m working on making a very detailed outline, and on Sunday (first day of a new month, and all) I’ll start working on the edit/revision/rewrite whatever it ends up being.

I’m a bit afraid of that, really. I’ve never done a full edit of a novel before. I’ve never finished a complete first draft of a novel before. So, this is going to be an adventure, I think. Though in reading through it to write the outline, there are some parts that I really like. And some parts I kind of hate. I’m discovering some characters that need to be given a bigger part, and others that need to go away. My biggest editing nightmare is going to be the fact that I still haven’t designed their political system. That definitely needs to be done.

In other news, I wrote a little over 100,000 words during nano. I guess in some ways I cheated, because that wasn’t all on one thing, but I’m counting them. In the meantime, some of the random things I was writing just to get words down have given me ideas. I’ve had a middle-grade series in my head for years. I started part of it in November, and while it’s a mess, I have actually gotten a much better idea of where the heck I’m going with it, now. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get the thing finished while the child who inspired it is still young enough to appreciate it.

I’ve already started making plans for this November. My tentative goal is going to be 250k, and I’m letting myself take a break from Sangue Collina and do some “crack-fic” that is actually looking to require more research than my Sangue Collina books. One is a Romantic Thriller about a woman in the witness protection program who is found by the people she’s supposed to be being hidden from. The other is an Indiana Jones-esque Adventure story about a geologist who gets sucked into a quest for… something… after his friend brings back rocks from the top of Mount Everest that are the exact same as rocks usually found on the bottom of the ocean. I swear this makes more sense in my head than I’m currently making on paper, but it’s still a bit of a nebulous idea that I need to do a lot more research before I can figure out what the heck is going on in it.

I’ve also started a reading challenge for 2015 that I’m a bit behind on. But, I think I’ll blog it, and post some kind of review of the books I read for it. Which means that I have two reviews to write, already, and hope to finish the third book by the end of the weekend.

Well, that’s enough rambling for one day. Tomorrow I’ll either post a review of the first book I read for my reading challenge or a bit of commentary I’ve had writing itself in my head for the past couple days about a mini-series I watched this week. Until I get the RSS feed and other sign-up things figured out on here, I’ll post links to these posts in my old blog so people can find me. And eventually I hope to figure out how to migrate my old posts.