Ack! My bold plan to do the Monday night writing group boldly tanked. The people are ok but the venue & the interaction ain't.

More on that unfortunate event here: https://www.tumblr.com/jajablonski/726988125077897216/ack-my-bold-plan-to-do-the-monday-night-writing?source=share

Photo credit: Andrew Neel on Unsplash

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With the first book done (& soon off to an editor)), the second calls, & rather insistently. I know precisely how it ends in terms of plot & in terms beloved & not so beloved characters. Ending in hand, I can now begin. ✒️📃

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Writing prompts are regularly posted here . . . I am more intrigued by how people use their dreams (images or stories) to deepen a story already in process.

My dream imagery last night inspired some world building & character backstory for Bks 2 & 3 of my academic mystery series (WIP).

Lots of blue green ice! And the Bronze age Nebra Sky Disk! A little more detail on that over on my IG page:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv9b47bOUxh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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I have the geographic location of my academic mystery's fictional college set on my phone's weather app. It & the people may all be imaginary but I like to keep tabs on them. 🙂

I also have weather & moon phase reports for the years of my story. I want to be sure things are accurate on the ground, as it were. Love that a Canadian polar vortex swept over my campus during the exact 2 weeks I needed. 😁

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Champing at the bit to get back to my academic mystery WIP while waiting to hear from my other 3 beta readers. The 1st reports were helpful, positively & negatively. I have some definite notions on where to start with revisions, but I'm holding off to see what the other readers saw (or didn't).

So I fill the time doing research for Bk 2 & writing a review for a diptych mystery series I finished last month.

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My Goodreads & Amazon review of SHADOW OF THE LIONS by Christopher Swann (a re-read):

#DarkAcademia #CampusThriller

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5355597823