Vivienne, A Writer

 


On this week's installment of staying sane, I definitely want to talk about writing. Writing for me is something that I've learned I Have to do. When I don't have an active project, I start to spiral down, and that's no good. Besides, I have so many stories in my head that are constantly begging to be written and worked on. So, I decided that once I'd finished rewriting book 2, Ziggy, I was going to take one week off, and then reread book 3 to see what shape it's in. I really enjoyed my reread of book 3, aka Zarath'gar's Curse. It is a slightly more complex story than book 1, definitely more so than book 2.

Zarath'gar's Curse is a triple point of view story, with two halves. One half is about a writer named Maximillian, who ends up being the unwitting host to a mean, incorporeal demon, and the other half is about Tal'De and Ziggy (main characters from the first two books) working together to find Ziggy's mentor and find a way to save him. There are elements in book 3 that need to be edited to fit the previous two stories (now that I've got them revised) but I also noticed the far too many chapters in Zarath'gar are just way too long. So...I have my work cut out for me. But it's nice to have a new story to play with!

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