Mental catch-up

Sometimes the brain just needs a break. I've been meaning to do the second-half of a novel (well, really two novellas) but will probably give my brain until closer to Feb. to drop back into that. Finishing up a nicely dark story about screwed-up magic this weekend (I hope); I know how it ends, just working on the beats leading up to it. After that it's a couple of story ideas for the magician series and there's something odd niggling at the back of my head involving a comment that was made to be in HS and my going "what if?" on it.

Also occupying myself by reading a fiction series I'm not really enjoying thus far -- there are over seven books in it, so obviously others do. Using it as an interesting example in how NOT to world-build, for the most part.

Now back to editing after this ....

And done the first draft of another story in the magician series — well, the Charlie/Dyer stories in that universe. As with all the other ones in that set, the title is based on the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. There are 64 of those. I have no idea how many stories I will actually write in the charlie series sequence but I doubt I’ll do 64 of them.

At some point, this series will cross back over with the regular magician series stories. If only to see how Dyer handles being asked to look after Jay while the magician and Charlie go off to talk, drink, and catch up on their lives.(I originally wrote, as a typo, ‘catch up with their lies’ and I imagine they will do that as well.)