Writing Update 4-30-12

I am still working on "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes".  I'm almost finished with it.

I've been pretty busy lately, and I will probably be pretty busy this week.  I haven't gotten a lot of writing done the past few weeks.  But I want that to change this week.  I want to get a lot more writing done.  I have some stories that I want to finish, and some stories that I want to write.  I really need to focus here.

When I finish "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes", I will be working on "The Whole Truth".  I haven't done another installment on the history of Kye Valley for a while.  I would like to work on that this week too.  :)

Where am I in "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes"?  I'm at the point where a young woman named Tabitha has to make a decision about whether she'll tell a secret that she's been keeping for 3 1/2 years.  She has never told anyone about something that she witnessed.  She's been afraid that no one will believe her.  But the memory of what happened has been haunting her all of these years.  Will Tabitha finally get the courage to share it with a bereaved mother named Lauren?

Writing Update 4-9-12

I want to give a quick update here.  I'm still working on "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes".  I'm in one of the last scenes of the story.  It's a major scene.  My goal is to have this story finished by the end of the week.  I may end up titling it "Witness".  :)

Writing Update 4-1-12

I should write my passion.  I think that's key.

I've been working on four stories at the same time, and getting little writing done.  I think that strategy is not working very well.  I think I should go back to writing just one story at a time.  It's a good thing I haven't started the Cody story yet.  I would love to be able to write four or five stories at the same time and get them finished.  But that's just not working for me.

"Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes" was the first of the four stories that I started working on.  I think I'll go back to just working on that story. Get it finished, and go on to the next story like maybe "The Whole Truth".  "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes", "The Whole Truth", and "Grace Song" all need to be finished.  "Little Sister" is a finished story that I had started to completely revise.

Speaking of "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes".  I was thinking that this story was going to be a novella.  Now I'm thinking maybe not.  It's possible that I may have started this story about three years too early.  I know I have a tendency to start my stories either a little too early or way too early.  Something that I need to remind myself to do is to look at where my passion really is in the story idea.  Wherever my passion is that's where the story itself really is.  I should write my passion.  Where is my passion in "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes"?  It's the ending.  Oh.

So I'll be working on "Sweet Nathaniel's Eyes" only for now until it's finished.  I think I'll print out what I've already written, and then I'll start the story at the "ending".  I hope that makes sense.