I thought I should update you on the progress of POM2, Forged Reality.

In April, I was 95% complete and so excited to put this one out to the Alpha I trust most. I had some reservations about a section, err maybe a whole plot line, but I thought surely that is just me. Well, as every good alpha reader SHOULD, this one threw up the red flags on the same issue. Good girl. However, that meant a whole BUNCH of work for me. Okay, fine. I can do it.

I can. Do. It.

However, my I can do it attitude rapidly turned into, I have to do it. I can’t do it. I’m too tired to do it. Then of course coupled with my health challenges it was I can’t do it!

Fast forward to two months ago when everything seems to sift away and it was just healthy me finding time for everything else but my beautiful novel. But something strange happened. Me, a veteran writer had a new horrible attitude. Can I do it? I can’t do it. I shouldn’t do it. I’m done.

Youch! I don’t know what exactly happened in the span of a year’s time, but things went down hill for me, my writing, and were looking really grim for all future projects.

It was a dark time. And one writers go through from time to time. The whole, “Do people care about what we write?”, “Will it matter that I never write again?”, “Will this one even sell?”, and other stinkin’ thinkin’. I call it stinkin’ thinkin’ because that is really all it is.

We’ve all gotten in this train of thought at one point in our lives, and while I did recognize the “this too shall pass” phase, I also begin to dig deeper into this thinkin’. And really question why I felt the way I did. I wish I could say how or why I pulled out of this funk, but I believe it was just a time of reflection and when I’d learned whatever lesson I was meant to learn (and I learned a lot during this time), my mind was released to continue what I’d begun.

Phew!

So, I’m happy to report that POM2: Forged Reality is on it’s way to a complete work. I working weekly on it and it’s taking beautiful shape. My Alpha reader is always right, but I won’t tell her that because it will go to her head, and the novel is coming together much more easily then the first pass. Which is epic. You are going to love it.

I’m hoping to post a COMPLETED soon. And then after a brief meeting with my editor, I should be able to have a release date hammered out. And just because I love you all, I thought I would give you an unedited  teaser line from Book 2 in Pieces of Me: Forged Reality.

The elastic that fastens the bulging pages is stretched and crumbling, as if to say it’s worn out and ready to depart this life. But I wasn’t ready to allow that to happen. I pull gently and the band comes free from the book, allowing the pages to puff open in relief. I stare at some of the varied colors sticking over the sides of the pages and inhale as deeply as I can, pulling the scent of the memories. The small beige cover is easy to move and when it’s pushed aside a breath catches in my throat.

The tattered yellow sticky-note affixed to the front page is exactly what I’ve come for.

Amnesia

No related posts.