I’m on vacation and visiting family in Alabama. One of the great things about being in Alabama over Iowa right now is that it’s much warmer. I had to get that out of the way first.

I’ve started writing book 2 of my /Drive series, trilogy, whatever and while it’s not going as fast as I’d have liked it’s going well. My word counts are okay, my characters are familiar and good to see again. I’ve missed them since I last read/edited/wrote Jump/Drive.

I’d be going along better if I had a better idea of  how to get where I’m going. I know how I wanted to start and I know what’s coming up but the bit right in between… I’m not sure what to do with that part. I’m toying with the idea of just skipping it and talking about it in the later bits. I didn’t have any real-time gaps in the first one so it’ll be different stylistically than the first one if I do that but I think I’m okay with that. Knowing minute by minute what every character is doing isn’t necessarily exciting… it’s why I haven’t seen The Hobbit. I really didn’t want to watch them walk. I think I should learn from that in this book and not show the walking but cut to the bits where something interesting happens.

I just got a call. Evidently everybody’s up now. While the voice mail didn’t actually say I should go join them it did tell me where they were so perhaps that was implied.