New website, new start

I’ve been away from the writing game for a couple of years now. I was tempted to throw in the towel ‘forever’ but I’m kinda scared of forever – it’s much too final and anyway, I keep changing my mind. I’m not a ‘forever’ type of person. I’m the sort of person who prides herself in her ability to adapt and change. But I really thought I’d left writing behind and had moved on to other interests. I joined a couple of personal development groups and worked on myself and met interesting, off-beat people, and did all those things that people do when they’re trying to avoid doing what they’re meant to do. And being pretty miserable about it, too.

What it came down to was confronting the fact that nothing fulfills me as much as writing stories. Storytelling. Those voices have been quiet for a while now, but every now and then that storyteller will stick its head over the parapet, look at the endless vista and say: “Wow! You’ve got to go there.” A new idea will niggle away at my brain. The characters from the unfinished stories I discarded will start pulling at my sleeve, pleading to be acknowledged, their stories completed.

It’s a lie that writers can’t remember stories they put to one side – each one is as clear to me as they day I conceived it. Only now the hero and heroine have grown sulky from being ignored and sexually frustrated at being kept from each other. They’ve decided they’re not going to let me get any restful sleep until I submit to their demands. In short, they won’t leave me the hell alone.

So I’m back. It’s been a few months of indecision and procrastination while slowly, slowly updating this website, trying to keep my characters at bay and fooling myself that I’m in charge. Finally, I caved. They deserve their stories told. And, yes, I want them out of my head!

I’ll be easing my way back into the writing world by re-releasing some of the stories whose rights have reverted to me: Siren’s Call, Master Game, Firesnake, and What Elves Eat. I’ll be tweaking the website till I have it in a state I’m happy with. And finally, I’ll bite the bullet and start writing again. I have at least four stories in various stages of completion nagging at me and, God knows, I hate a nag!

That’s the plan. Now it’s down to the (wo)man in the plan. I hope you’ll join me for this new, exciting journey.