A whole new world June 11, 2008

OK, don’t get used to this.

While blogging over at the Purple Hearts every week has been amazing, this is more of a personal author’s journey blog.

So, jump in, comment your hearts out and push your writing to the next level with me.

What is the next level? 

Currently I’m in submitting mode. It’s an exciting process (although occasionally frustrating) and I’m learning a ton doing it. I feel amazingly lucky to be able to say I have several partials of my manuscript floating around out there as well as a full.

Book two of my YA series is taking shape and growing in my head, feeding the overall arc and taking over my life.

Worldbuilding is still exciting. Beyond growing the world as we know it from book one, I’m also preparing to travel to a new land and branch out to see where those myths the reader sees in each book came from.

So, exciting, anxious, fun, nerve wracking, and everything in-between — here goes the rest of my journey.

Welcome,
bria

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow February 13, 2008

There are days when that more often than not describes me - especially with what I’m working on right now.  I’m living in the world of a YA Fantasy - and I like it there! My characters struggle with everything that challenges us here, but have their own set of problems created by the world they live in as well.

Worldbuilding is my newest toy. Every time I think it’s complete, something new comes into scope. A friend said to just let the world be more of a reflection of our own world. After a lengthy discussion explaining how different their world is, so it couldn’t just be HERE & NOW with different people and place names, I received a blank stare. And promptly gave up trying to explain.

Right now I’m working on a Tri-Lunar calendar (I’ll admit, it’s killing me and if you’re an astronomer or astrologer, and wouldn’t mind humoring me, drop me a line, please!)

Today’s research (pretend I update this every morning) is to design the city 1/3 of the story takes place in – there’s too much movement within the walls to not have a clear, consistent picture of where things are happening – how fun is that?

I’m finding my new world is, sometimes frighteningly, clear in my mind. I dream about it in such vivid displays of shapes and colors that, when I awake, it is for those first moments of the day more real than the room my bed sits in. There is so much beauty available in your own mind. Letting it challenge the pain that resides there as well to create a world you want to write about