So you may or may not know that I’d been writing a novel about dragons and was dedicating it as my First Ever Finished Book to my friend Dee. Because she’s awesome and loves dragons.

Well, it’s still my First Ever Finished Book. And it’s still dedicated to Dee. But… um… it’s not actually very good. I mean, that’s kind of what happens with first books, or so I hear. They aren’t actually that good, and a few years down the road of published-dom you might actually pull it out and say “I can rewrite this” and get something totally awesome. But… well… for now it’s kind of stuck in the closet with the rest of my old projects.

But it’s still dedicated to Dee. I should ask if she wants to read it. She’ll be nice and say yes, because she is nice, and then I won’t bug her about it in case she hasn’t actually read it. ^_^; Yes, yes. Good plan.

Have you ever had fantastic characters, detailed backgrounds, obvious motives, and absolutely no idea how to organize your plot?

Yeah, that’s one of my problems with some of my older (non-super hero) work. *sigh*

In other news, I’m editing the website a bit and then I’m going to try my hand at finishing Isabelle’s book. Just need to add some Final Battle details… change it up a bit. And I already backed up the current draft, which I always have to do before major edits, in case those edits suck.

I’m getting around to it because my poor sweet husband has a work deadline today and he’ll need the office all to himself.

So I got a little sidetracked by Warcraft. But there were also some plot details I needed to work out, and I started on a new story that I may or may not continue.

In any case, this is the meat of it: the last 2 days, I’ve been editing the Isabelle story and right now I’m working on a timeline for the “super hero world” so that all of my stories can interweave without timeline mishaps. I need to be very specific, since some of my stories are happening at the same time as others, so I even went so far as to pick out birthdays for all of my characters.

The timeline isn’t finished, though, so I’m going to finish it before I take on the daunting (to me, at least) task of tweaking Isabelle’s ending.

Working makes me happy. ^_^

All during June, I visited family, and friends visited me, and so I just posted the rest of the Isabelle story to my critique group. With my air conditioning out, and all the heat, I haven’t felt like working, but it should be fixed very soon.

So I’ve been reading, instead, to get my creative energies up. And to relax. After feeding a horde of hungry guys, I need to relax.