Not much to say about today in the realm of novel work. I got a chapter going by hand for section one of the book. I wrote it by freehand in my paper notebook at lunch at my day gig.

I’m just in the process of writing the book as it comes to me. The real fun part is still weeks away when I make the adjustments to connecting all the book sections together.

I can already see I’m going to enjoy reading the book when it’s finally done. Oh yeah the comedy. I don’t know if I mentioned this but I’m big fan of having some type of comedy in what I write. That wasn’t always the case.

Writing comedy or what I think of as funny situations and jokes wasn’t intentional at all on my part. It kind of happened because of the makeup of characters and a bit of my own sense of dark humor coming into the mixture. Though in this book there is a bit of dark moments in it with a few twists I hope not to telegraph to early. When the shocking moments happen I want them to punch the reader in the face as much as it did me when I discovered that was going to happen in the story.

There will be a lot of rewrites in the future.

The book is still in the planning mode. That is strange to say for me as I am writing the first draft but it’s really like that. I don’t know what changes I’m going to input along the way and I’m trying to be real about these characters and not down play them. There is a mixture of romance, drama and maybe a murder in the novel.

The book is still in that experimental stage where the elements are mixing in my head as I’m writing.

I’m discovering what type of creature it’s going to be.

I’m keeping the chapters short and compact but I’m hoping to refine the pace on the second draft. I’ll keep you posted on my process.

L. M. Parker

P. S.

Everything I’m doing is organized for the way I write to save time. This would be a lot more harder to do without an outline I wrote along with the character sheet and notes.