The past few weeks have been a struggle for me. I’m struggling to deal with the turmoil in the world and the turmoil in my brain. “Push & Pull”, the second book in “The Midwest Series” continues to be a challenge. I knew it, my beta readers confirmed it, and I felt unable to root out the problem and fix it. Focusing as much as I have been on politics and the election is burning me out fast. Although I am passionate about my beliefs, too much focus on the news and the potentia

Unfortunately, I had to skip the flash fic again.  As eager as I was to write this particular prompt I am once again drowning in work. I keep trying to remind myself that it’s all good stuff.  The Equals novella is at least half done, the spin-off novel is written and Allison did some preliminary beta work on it.  It’s in relatively good shape and just needs some tweaking.  The first draft of the 150k + novel I’ve been collaborating with another writer on is finished and will

I’ve been writing like mad in the last week and a half and have over 15,000 words on Evan’s story.  The story’s outlined, I have a clear grasp of who the characters are, and the words have been flowing as fast as I can type them.  But it’s just not happening today. I’m going to see if working on something else helps, but if not, I might just need a day off. The problem is, I’d already planned to take Friday afternoon and most of Saturday off.  The husband volunteered to kick