Dealing with the Unexpected
May 25, 2023 3:01 pm
Hey there!
Last week I was so optimistic about getting the first draft of Dragonblooded finished and out of the way.
Unfortunately, fate had a different plan, from a few different perspectives. First off, all seven of my family members got sick during the weekend. And when I say sick, I mean throwing up constantly for around twelve hours sick. They didn't all get sick at once, but instead staggered with each other. Let's just say that I cleaned up dozens of throw up buckets (nearly 60, if we're actually counting) and was up with sick people until about 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning.
And then I got struck by it. So that put me out a couple days as well, after already being exhausted to no end. In any case, no writing those days!
Still, my discovery writing brain decided I wasn't on the second to last chapter (like I thought I was) and we are now at just over 95K words. I can feel the end closer, but it's likely to be around 105K when it's done. Was hoping to give you to 'woohoo I finished' message this week but no such luck. The best thing about situations like this is that I can always move forward!
Lastly, even though The Kids of Cybercity is a bit stalled on the writing front, I was able to generate two of the main characters in Midjourney and they are freaking awesome! Jaesun is the twelve year old main character who's POV I'm writing, and Sadie is the POV written by my co-author Lara. I'll tag their images at the bottom of this email.
New YouTube Video
Now that all the kids were born for the season, I did a 'state of the kidding' video where I talk about the challenges we experienced with the goat kidding this year. It was definitely not ideal, but we are glad they are all okay! (This was technically a few days before the final goat had her baby, but it's still accurate)
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Also, another great book for fantasy lovers!
Vandryn of house Glenclare faces insurmountable odds fighting against the corrupt Melborians. He will rely on an unexpected friendship with an elf named Zan Cadeyn Umbaden and his alluring sister Zylla. Together they will face the will of the Blood Queen, empress Ash Axana and a treacherous plot of a beautiful young blood mage named Liliath.
This series is Epic Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery Mild Dark Fantasy with some adult situations.
Jaesun, trying to survive the chaos of Cybercity.
Sadie, doing everything to shut out the noise.
warm regards,
Dan