Working on Tribal, still. I might have to change a scene to keep him in the dark about being a werewolf. I showed him changing and reacting, but that kind of makes the reveal superfluous at the end of the third chapter. I can change it, but I really need to have my notes near by when I’m writing. I tend to shoot from the hip without the notes to keep me in line. Doing that makes things harder, and I want to get this manuscript done as quickly as possible. By quick, I mean by the end of the year. ‘Quick’ is a relative term.

Per usual, I am looking way far ahead, and I am going to work on my Western/Fantasy series all next year. I want to get a couple of novels under my belt so I can get more published. I should use this Saturday to finish the editing of Agonizing Alibi Day and start the edits for The Show Must Go On. I think the later should be sent through the ringer of traditional publishing. After that, I need to finish the outline for Serve Me Now and call that the last one I am going to write this year.

I need to read some Westerns, since I’ve described this novel (Unbound) as “Lord Of The Rings meets Frankenstein on the set of Lonesome Dove”. I’m starting with my wife’s suggestion to read some of the Sackett series by Louis L’Amour. I think after that I am going to try Zane Grey and look for some different authors. Research.

I’m also teaching myself literary theory, and I have learned that I am not going to write literature any time soon. My current work list is more than proof enough of that. I’m not completely eliminating the idea that I will write literary fiction, but I am far more comfortable with the genres. I just don’t feel…qualified? Confident? Literary fiction seems something written by men in tweed jackets who fret about postmodernism versus mimesis. I fret about whether or not someone changing into a werewolf would remember it. Not exactly screaming “Pulitzer”, is it?

That’s all for now, I should get to work on something and not be distracted by YouTube.