It’s been a few days since I published the first book in The Crimson Rose series Night Hunter. Originally I was aiming for it to be a full novel, but I’m not sure I’m wordy enough for 50k words. That said 32k isn’t too bad in the grand scheme making the book in the novella category. I think my first one An Unexpected Beginning maybe hit 27k so there was some progress I suppose.

It’s funny, I had such a hard time with Night Hunter over the last year that I was surprised when I found this weird second wind that hit me. While on vacation I just decided to start typing the last few chapters and suddenly I found myself writing a whole new one. I was so close to finishing that I said screw it and proofread and edited everything over the weekend. Then late Saturday night I hit the published button and listened to all the crickets around me. It’s not like I ever expect people to look at my work so I don’t really get disappointed. Hopefully one day it will catch someone’s eye and will start being looked at.

All of this is besides the point. Going back to the unexpected second wave of creativity led to waking up the day after I published and had a whole prologue  pop into my head. It was kind of annoying actually since it was the one time I didn’t have a journal on hand and I prefer writing by hand. Yesterday on my way home from work I grabbed one and today started putting jotting down what I remembered.

It was refreshing to be able to flow out words and scenes without having to struggle. If I’m lucky this will go smoother and not take 2 years to finish. At the moment the tentative subtitle is Midnight Shadows, but we’ll see if that sticks.

As always thanks for dealing with my rants. And if you have any ideas on a subtitle let me know in the comments!