P. A. Matthews
Vulnerable Raconteur
Dirt Beneath the Shamrocks
Nightmare in Stone Dirt
| Posted at 09:00 PM on October 28, 2008 |
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Hello Peeps;
Gosh, where has the month gone? Mine still exists in an Ibuprofen bottle. I'm into my second hundred tablet one in three weeks. Think there's a record somewhere in there for liver tolerance or something. How has your month gone? Geez, almost Halloween and I haven't decorated anything in my blog either. I'll try to put something here once I get this effort in rambling gone amok done. 
Okay, here's more scoop on the writing front.
After months trying to decide how to handle a scene in the next Riley installment, I finally found something to hit on after scads of misses. Some days writing is like digging for gold in a million miles of pyrite-laden earth. It just ain't happenin' no matter how long or deep those holes have become or how tired your arms are from flinging gold-flecked stones. But I'm tres happy to report I started on that scene and it kept growing as if the pyrite had been layered with manure and continued sprouting areas full of idea plants. Too many ideas in fact as I continued trying to rein in my mind and concentrate on the task at hand.
The scene ended up at almost 17,000 words, which I'm dividing into sort of chapter-like breaks. Hopefully the editing will make the scene's length interesting and not a torture session in the futility of overwriting a notion instead of a plot.
When I reached the end of the scene I was never so happy to remove my mind from the room in which the story dwelt. I'd spent weeks locked in that room with one character, shifting from banter to angry words, active visions, weaving loose ends of other storylines from the previous stories into the tapestry of this story to answer questions posed by plotlines and characters and probably from those who've been kind enough to read the series, while tempting other questions to be asked from Riley and her foes.
When I started this installment, now entitled "Nightmare in Stone", I had planned to continue the story far past where I have ended, but have since decided to begin another installment and delve deeper into some the characters of Zander, Andrew, and Riley's reaction to them in her life. That's the only spoiler you're going to get from me at this point. Sorry.
I can now tell you "Nightmare in Stone" is finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This one weighs in at almost 30,000 words (yep another novelette, aren't you excited? I am.) and picks up with Riley ... ah, you'll need to read "Hunted" to see how that one ends to put this in context. 
And don't forget "Blood Betrayal" (novelette length) is coming out in February 2009 and you'll want to have read "Hunted" then as well since Braedon isn't happy due to ... What can I say? It's a series meant to keep you intrigued. I hope I'm doing my job because I'm intrigued with what I'm going to come up with next. 
So I'm now going to tackle editing, make sure continuity issues are addressed, and plot lines secure. Who ever said writing was a simple process? And then the pacing begins when people read to see if I managed to work a bit of magic on the page, then more pacing as the work is sent to the publisher to await their reaction. I wonder how low the stock price on Advil is these days? I'm sure I'll need a fresh supply. Maybe I can ask the Great Pumpkin for some in lieu of candy.
Here's where we stand, folks. "Myth to Life: The Rise of Riley McCabe" is available at Mystic Moon Press
http://www.mysticmoonpress.com/authorpages/pamatthews.html
as well as a few other stores such as Fictionwise eBooks, mobi pocket, and Amazon.com (click above picture for reading links)
Available now:
1) Between Myth and Blood
2) At Death's Door
3) Hunted
February 2009:
4) Blood Betrayal (A Carlisle Chronicle)
Coming Soon:
5) Nightmare in Stone
6) Harbinger's Moon (new characters in the Carlisle Chronicle side of life)
7) Rise of the Clan (this title may change as many do, just wanted to tempt you with the story of Zander, Andrew, and Riley.)
I want to thank those of you who continually care about what happens to me as well as my writing. I couldn't do any of this without ALL of you and I don't want to. Thanks for being patient with me while I write. Life becomes a tad tunnel-visioned when trying to get work out there and meet deadlines.
I heard this song today. It's the new single from Nickleback. I think I've found a song which expresses my personal life a bit. This is the first day I've listened to music. Consider this a gift to those still searching. Maybe one day, huh?
Ta and peace.
P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woiRZBlDJHs
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