It has been 2 years since I wrote an entry and am sorry for leaving it for this long. They were two long years of frustration and dashed hopes. In my last blog, I thought that I had finished In the Blood of the King, but noooo. That wasn’t to happen. I got back the first draft from my alpha readers. They were luke warm in their response. Fine I thought. It’s not terrible so let’s re-read in preparation for sending it to my editor. I re-read it and was bored – bored enough that I couldn’t believe that my readers wouldn’t be bored. I thought about it and decided it was because I tried a different method for writing.

There are several different ways of writing, or perhaps it would be safe to say that there are several different types of writers. I have been reading about writing and going to conferences for a while , and they always touched tangential on types of writing styles. I wasn’t sure what I was, until I decided to try one of the methods other authors used. So, in the Blood of the King I planned my book using a type of flow chart – in this case it started out as a mind map. The idea was to give me an idea of where I was heading.

That was all fine and good. I slogged (and I use the word slog deliberately) through the writing of In the Blood of the King and had a very difficult time finishing it so I could send it to my alpha readers. But when I re-read it I was unhappy. I knew what was going to happen. Except when I re-read Beast Master I was not bored and I definitely knew what was going to happen in that book. This required some thought which I will delve into in my next blog.