Daaannnnng......

So it's been almost two months since the last post.  WOW.  Sorry, guys.

So I have done chaptero uno (yeah, I know Spanish-don't act like you're not impressed).  I have actually already revised it based on some feedback I got from this awesome writing group that's really kicked up now.  I've not submitted the revised version of said chapter to those writers yet (sorry y'all had to find out about it this way), but will do so tonight when I get home.  I actually just finished those revisions last night and feel a lot better about this chapter now, but still have some questions.  A great idea they had was starting in the middle of some action.  I think the hardest part about writing for me will be not boring readers with so much backstory, but to integrate the backstory with the action and other dialogue the book.  So I'm working on that as I start chapter 2.  Hopefully we'll see how that goes next week after our Sunday meetings.  AND, maybe I'll start pushing through all of this a little faster.  I'd love to have this finished by the end of the year.

Right now my biggest speedbump is wedding planning.  There is so much going on with that and all the other events leading up to it (showers, portraits, alterations, etc.) that my weekends are getting eaten up.  But I have just a little over two months left of wedding mess and then maybe I can settle in and get cracking.  I seem to write best when I have an empty day with NOTHING else going on.  I fall into some sort of rhythm and can write for a good while until my brain is fried from trying to put my imagination into readable and captivating sentences.  Which, as you can tell from this blog, is a challenge for me. 

Next post, I shall impress you with my German...