I’ve convinced myself I’ve opened Pandora’s Box with Diamond Crier.  I’ve given myself all the room in the world to work with this story.  Personally, I prefer confines.  It gives me set walls in which to work.  Without them the inundation of ideas can be overwhelming and counterproductive to my writing since the influx keeps coming and the story keeps changing.  It makes my wrist cry.

I am trying desperately to get this story written.  Right now I don’t know if I’m going to stop after this arc finishes and wait to edit or write through to the original ending that’s been pushed back by the addition of this arc and edit then.  On top of that, the land of South Fair is ever niggling at the back of my mind and I so want to explore that region, perhaps shove Sabina into it once this main Diamond Crier story ends.

The ability to keep my mind focused on this one story and not let it wander into other sections of the world is proving to be a little difficult but I’m soldiering on, taking notes so I don’t forget anything and will come back to it all.  I’m starting to consign to the fact that Diamond Crier might not be my first novel per se, at least not on query considering all the changes it’s going through and all the different stories I’m pulling from it.  The editing is going to be extensive and at this point, I don’t see it being the first on the query boat because of the complexity of the world.  I really do believe I’ll finish other novels first before this one’s good to go.

I wanted Diamond Crier to be my first on submission but I also want it to be perfect and not rushed.  It doesn’t deserve to get released until it’s rightly finished and since the other stories are much more confined in terms of the world they’re in, they’ll probably come before this one.

With that being said, I’m seriously considering doing NaNo this year and I think I’m going to be pumping out the Earth Shatterer story for that one.  It’s a fun story that I think I can crank out just to prove to myself that I can write 55,000 words in a month.  I’ll put my head through a wall when it comes to typing in but the words will be written, won’t they?

I’m still aiming to finish Diamond Crier by the time I go on vacation in the first week of October.  It’ll require some strict concentration on my part but I think I can do it.  That would be the first arc only, though.  I can do that but I don’t think I can crank out what would be a whole ‘nother novel on top of it in a couple weeks.  I would like use of my hands and everything.  Always a plus.