It’s been a very long time since I’ve written here. Between then and now, I changed positions at work, got considerably more involved at church, made new friends, visited new cities, and had a variety of new and eye-opening experiences. And in that time, I rarely found time to write. (Save, of course, for the months of November and December.)
That is, until a chance encounter with a new musician in one of those new friends’ cars.
Josh Garrels has an album available for free download on NoiseTrade, and the moment I heard the first few lines of the first song on the album, all of those characters whose stories were still unfinished rose up inside of me and demanded my attention. This song was just so perfect, so absolutely well-suited to the mood of the trilogy I’m working on, that I couldn’t help but think of it as a sort of theme song or soundtrack.
Since then, I’ve been methodically finishing scenes of book one every day, and I’m about two scenes from typing THE END. (Then, of course, there’s all of the things I need to change in book two because of things that happened in book one that I didn’t know had happened when I originally wrote book two as a stand-alone.)
Then, I can tackle the 1/3 finished book three. You’ve got to love music when it pumps you up!
