Dear Friend, this is exciting isn’t it? Thoughts being formed unto a page for the first time. I’m excited and I don’t know if you are yet. But I think this will be a good thing. My habits are well formed and I’m making progress.

Currently I’m working on two projects: Project Ink and Project Adam. We’ll see where these take us.

I’ve been working on Project Ink for about a year and a half, off and on. I had a big push of writing with it for about two months where I wrote on average a thousand words a day. This quickly lead to burn out, however I made great progress.

Post two month period, when I reached a problem with it, I began putting it off. I would work on solving the problem which would take anywhere from a day to two weeks.

Recently I hit a problem with character voice. To me, the three male characters were fractions of myself. Somewhere between an 80% – 50% – 20% split between them. The lead being the larger percentage similar to me and the newly introduced character being the small percentage.

I became frustrated, how could I resolve character voice problem by brute forcing my way through it. I probably could have, but I didn’t trust myself to finish the project if I did. I made a goal for myself; to be done with this first project by the seventh month of the year. This isn’t likely to happen, large in part because I became disillusioned with how my character looked and sounded. They were just fractions of me, how would I distinguish them from each other.

So I sought a smaller project: Project Adam. A mini project where for 90% of the story it would be a conversation between two people, with very little dialogue tags. It’s been very fun to write so far, and I love how my characters sound. Distinct and separated.

I will have more details to send on a future date, but for now Dear Friend, you will be alright.