The Novel Begins!

Nonowrimo is here! And man....what horrible timing! :)

I lost my water bottle on the train this past Monday. Then I lost my glasses on Tuesday. And then my phone yesterday. (Somewhere in there my sanity went, too....) Gearing up for Year End here at Wizards has been absolute hell. My kids are both getting in trouble at school. And I'm sick.

Ok, enough bitching. Here's my book.

After all of the deliberation and flip-flopping, I did what I knew I ultimately would and went with my original idea. Duh.

"The Ending Dream" is part of the "Crown of Blood" series, but it doesn't exactly fall into the regular trilogy. That doesn't mean it's a prequel...not exactly. I'm thinking of it as a sort of supplmental piece to the 2 3/4 of the four-part series that I've completed to date (with this one, it officially becomes a 5-part series). While logic would dictate that I should just finish Book 3 (which was a plan I had earlier this year) or else finish up the "Razor" trilogy (Plan B), the truth is that the ideas for "The Ending Dream" have been floating around in my head for several months now, and every time I sit down to brainstorm I keep coming back to this. I'm more excited about this project than I have been for any writing in a long time....and since being excited about something is an almost sure fire way to ensure that I'll actually work on it, I figured this was probably the best way to go.

So without further ado, I decided to take a few minutes this afternoon (since, as usual, I didn't really get anything resembling a lunch break) and get started. Check out my progress here.

P.S. To my lovely wife: thanks for your continued inspiration, love and support. (And did I mention that I love your new haircut?)