Writing news, I wasn’t able to take my laptop with me (no electricity for the charger) so instead I took my copies of Holly’s Hawkspar and Talyn that finally came in at my local bookstore, and George R.R Martin’s Game of Thrones (that I was incredibly overdue in reading) and read whenever I wasn’t watching the landscape and wildlife.

My revision of ARC-1 is going well. I’m only on week 2 but I am already realising that my story could really use a killable Book I villain, to make the climax more climactic without doing in any of the big bads I will need later in the series.

Slowly but surely, a new character is congealing in my head, and a way to weave him into the story and make him work, and work hard, for my

Leaving my MC trying to keep a lid on an extreme attack of Vampiric Thirst, while two other characters argue over whether they should kill her or not. Devan, being the conflicted thing she is, doesn’t know which side of the argument she belongs on.

And yes, I understand that a lot of people are sick of the vampire thing, but Devan has been haunting me for some years now, and her story deserves to be told.

And not much progress on storyline.