Hello from the other side of spring break!
If you're wondering where I've been, well, the beach, mostly. I made a deliberate decision going into the break to turn my brain completely off from writing mode and just… read. I had a small pile of books I'd been meaning to get to for months, and I finally got to them, and it was glorious and I have zero regrets.
I haven't been completely fallow. Last we spoke, I updated you on my little detour into comics which turned into a little flash fiction at the gentle prodding of my dear friend Almost Lisa.
But the thing that's really been occupying me is the next novel. I'm working on something I'm calling Forging the Phis and the prologue and first chapter are done and I'm really happy with them. Chapter Two, though. Chapter Two has opinions about itself and most of those opinions involve making my life difficult.
This isn't actually new territory for me. I've run into this before, where the first chapter of something basically writes itself, riding the momentum of a fresh idea, and then the second chapter arrives and suddenly everything is harder. You have to actually build the thing instead of just launching it. But I also know from experience that once I push through it and get a few chapters under my belt, the story starts to find its own gravity and the writing gets easier again.
So that's where I am. Head down, wrestling with Chapter Two, fully confident that we're going to reach an understanding soon. Something is coming, and I think it's going to be worth the wait.
More soon. 💕
xoxo, Paige