Since I’ve been forced to take it easy the next few weeks, I’m hopeful that I might get to work on my book again and maybe finish one more chapter. My writing process has been chaotic for the most part. I’ve been listening to some podcasts and reading books and online blogs by other authors to try and get a handle on the creative process. Here is a short summary:

Kirk and Aaron were just two travelers hoping to find adventure in Greyhawk’s most notorious drinking establishment. Little could they have known that adventure would find them just a few feet away from the Green Dragon Inn. Joined by the mysterious and tight-lipped merchant Rarsirrien, a female thief, and a disgraced Paladin, they become caught up in a plot to thwart the infamous and evil Witch Queen of Perrenland, Iggwilv, from obtaining the secret to immortality. To do so, they will have to breach the magically protected borders of the secretive Valley of the Mage. If they succeed, they will have to find Iggwilv’s agents while avoiding detection by the most powerful spell caster on the continent. Discovery will mean capture and an uncertain fate, and failure will mean the loss of countless lives to Iggwilv’s cruel experiments. But in the Valley of the Mage, not everything, nor everyone, is as it appears. Along the way, our heroes will have to confront the demons of their past and a few in the present. If they succeed, their reward will be freedom, fame, and the riches that come from it.

So in the next few weeks, I will be trying to develop my characters’ backgrounds a little more and define what motivates them. If I’m lucky, my new display will arrive before my old one completely quits on me. Since I am not using a laptop anymore, an external monitor has become essential; I have completed my switch from an M1 Max MacBook Pro to the Mac Studio. Not that it has gone without a few bumps in the road. The latest was Drobo’s parent company declaring bankruptcy which forced me to try and find a new RAID solution.

I think I have things pretty stable now and so I will try and force myself to get some real work done before fall is here and I have more work around the new home.