I’m afraid I’ve very much neglected this blog and that it suffered a similar fate to many blogs held by would-be bloggers… Started with enthusiasm… Posts twice a week… Dwindling to one image a week… Then a repost of an old image a week… Then nothing. The problem is that at first, I had a schedule and I stuck to it. But the moment I decided that after all, it would be ok to not post something, just for this week, next week will go back to normal… Well… The rhythm’s broken and... you know the rest.
Anyway, today’s a good time as any to create a new post and let you know how I’m doing with my writing (because I’m hoping that you are reading this because you have read my novel and loved it and wish to know when the sequel will be released). The writing’s going well. I probably should write more than I’m doing at the moment (good excuses and sheer laziness being so many obstacles) but I’m making slow progress on the sequel of As Winter Came and Went.
I’ve also made some progress on Cinnamon which is my second main fiction writing project (still not sure though if it will end up being a novella or a novel). I’m also considering taking up an abandoned project, the half-written first draft of a short novel set in 19th century Dartmoor. It would probably need lots of reworking. Maybe a total rewrite. But I’ve been thinking about this project lately and I think that the main characters have some potential. I’d abandoned it because the storyline was becoming rather (very) silly. But perhaps, reworking it, and shortening it to a novella format, might make it more palatable.
My main project remains the sequel. I’m reaching the last chapters of the first draft and I’m hoping to finish that by the end of 2019. I would like to say, by the end of Summer 2019, but that’s probably too ambitious.
If all goes to plan (but we all know it never does, right), the sequel could be available in 2020. That gives you time to read As Winter Came and Went if you have not already. It got a few nice reviews on amazon (amazon.fr and amazon.co.uk) so, if you have nothing to do this summer, and enjoy literary fiction in a historical setting, you could always give it a try!
