The Sorcerer's Daughter . . . redoing the redone redo

I think I'm going to take another stab at writing The Sorcerer's Daughter.

I've decided instead of making it five books I'll just make it one. One big one. That feels like the right decision to me.

Of course, I need to reconfigure the plot, but that will actually be easier now, I think. I can jettison some stuff that I wasn't wild about in the first place.

So, that's the project for this weekend, plotting that out and maybe starting the first draft. That, and working on my art.

I'm going to stop attempting to paint anything for a while--my last few attempts have been less than successful. To put it mildly. I think I'm going to play around with pastels and just work on my sketching, which is coming along pretty well.

I know I'd get better at painting if I took some classes or something, and I probably will at some point. But not right now. Right now I need to work on writing.

2014, at least so far, has been pretty good to me. It started out poorly but has picked up quite a bit over the past couple of weeks--lots of good stuff going on, not just with me, but with people who are important to me, too. I think good things are in store for us.

I just wish at least some of these good things would hurry up and get here!