Goodreads asked Susan Buffum:

What are you currently working on?

Susan Buffum I'm currently putting together three volumes of my annual Christmas stories for friends and family. Instead of a Christmas letter about myself and my family and what we've done since the last letter, I decided to write a little holiday story to entertain my relatives with. I began doing this in around 1999. I missed a few years from 2000-2003 as I worked through my grief at losing my mother way too soon (she was only 69 years old), but since 2004 I have written at least one yuletide story per year- sometimes more. My family and friends now expect a story and I try hard to oblige, writing right down to the wire sometimes!
As far as writing something new, I am struggling with Remy and Lissa who have a story to tell but I haven't gotten it just right yet. I have written about 9 short stories about them but their relationship develops over several years, so they really need to have their own novel in which they can evolve and develop but it hasn't happened yet. What I have done for I believe the first time in my life is actually begin writing a plotline. I've never used a plotline before. My novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories have all just sprung to life out of my head onto the page. My sister, who is also a writer, has always struggled with plotlines and whatever else writers use as tools and has probably hated me because my writing style is like direct dictation from the muse who resides in my brain. It will get written but this one will take more time.

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