Clearly there was an uptick in blog posting earlier this year. Three times in as many months! In an age where blog posting is effectively dead if you don’t have a platform (or if it isn’t your primary focus), we’ll call that a surprising increase in activity. And then…NOTHING! Until today. The cool thing is, I’ve been gone because I started a new novel. Granted, I didn’t start it until August, but I started. I’ve written 35,000 words in the last couple months. And given the three years previous were almost entirely academic papers (aside from an attempted rewrite of THE TRIAD SOCIETY) we’ll call this a win.

I’ve been working on THE SEVENTH SACRIFICE, which I’ve false started on multiple times. First it was wrong because I had used this pseudo-Austrian people. Then I moved to a Mongolian/Chinese/Japanese blend, heavy on the Mongolian, and that fit better, but I had the wrong character. This time, I’ve made a secondary character the primary character and it’s finally working out. I feel strongly that this one is going to continue on to completion. I’ve expanded the series to seven, though, so there is a TON of work to come yet after this first draft (revision, second revision, third revision?, sequel draft, etc.).

https://twitter.com/RinChupeco/status/1045868139009826816