I was asked to guest over at Paranormal Romantics today and decided to talk about a unique challenge I face as a writer. One most people take for granted.
How do you write about five senses when you only have four?
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So, it’s February 18th. Which means Flash of Dark has been out for a whole month. So, what I have done in that month? Started the next book in the Star Runner series (Midnight’s Shadow), finished the next book in the Rebirth series (Blood Fury), waffled and fought with my own inner writing related demons. I’ve always been my own worst enemy when it comes to writing, but now it’s a whole different set of them added on top of what I already deal with. That’s okay though, to not get caught up in my own crap (that I always make worse in my own head) I write. Seems sort of odd, doesn’t it? You worry about writing so you write to forget about it? Not so odd if you remember that writing is an escape for me. There are times when writing is a struggle (like currently) and I learned not to force writing, so I usually use those times to catch up on my large TBR pile. A few books into it, I finally find my writing stride again and my TBR pile builds again.
Speaking of TBR piles, I thought I would show off mine. (Note, this of course, doesn’t include my eBook TBR pile, which sits on my hard drive and on my eReader.)
What’s yours look like? Bigger? Smaller? I showed you mine, show me yours. 
My brain has exploded a bit and I find myself suddenly working on something now I hadn’t thought I’d been working on yet. Thursday evening, I finished up my recent draft of the next Rebirth book, Blood Fever. I’ll set it aside for a little while before digging it back out to check for my usual “tells”. I expected to take some time, maybe dabble around with the untitled fantasy book I’ve been working on, but something else decided to come to the forefront.
So, since Friday evening, I already have nearly 5k on the next Star Runner Saga book, Midnight’s Shadow. I’ve scribbled out a bunch of notes in an effort to try to keep up with my brain, but I try not to do that too much as I’m quite content with my “pantser” mentality. I usually know only a few key things I want to accomplish in a book each time I start and that all came to me Friday night while I was driving. Start, middle and most importantly end (which, funnily enough is usually always, always, the first thing I think of when starting a new book – this one was no exception).
Off to fly in the stars.