August Slipped Away Update

Lula's first beach day in Michigan

...Like a bottle of wine.

...Like a handful of sand.

...But never like writing a book.

I don't know what it is about August, other than it's the last, perfect month of the Summer I wait all year for. But one sip, and soon it's gone.

It happens to so many good things. Meals, vacations, books.

But the one thing it definitely does not happen to?

WRITING.

There is no blink, and suddenly a whole book is done. No sparkly water that can make the process anything other than what it is. Which is a daily slow through the marshes, trying to get words, sentences, pages written in the hope that one day, in the not so distant future, all those days will add up to a book.

I think it's the intentionality of the writing process that means it never just slips by. It can't! Because you are the one pushing it forward, word by word.

Anyway, not much of an exciting thought. But I finished my third book this summer, and am now back to book 2 for a complete re-write with a slightly altered world and concept.

Still a curse, still ELLA ENCHANTED vibes, still GUILT AS SIN love, and still hoping to be able to share it one day soon.

Until then, I'll be here more.. Taking breaks for Querying and Writing.

Hope the rest of your August doesn't slip by without you noticing!