Why I’m Starting This Blog (Again)

Where the rewriting (and now, blogging) gets done.

Getting Started (Again)

Over a year ago, I decided to start blogging about my writing journey. I had just finished the first draft of The Fractured Soul, Book One of what will become a high fantasy trilogy, and figured I should start "building a presence." That's what all the advice said. I'm terrible at social media, so — blogging it was.

But I didn't have a plan. I was still elbow-deep in revisions, trying to pare my massive 153,000-word manuscript down to something more reasonable, and the blog quickly became one more creative task pulling energy from the actual writing. So I paused. (Okay, I abandoned it.)

I went on to get feedback from a developmental editor, which prompted my first full rewrite of the manuscript, and then promptly broke my foot and spent twelve weeks in a boot. More on that in an upcoming post.

Now, though? The manuscript has gone through its second full rewrite. It's at 100,000 words, out with beta readers, and for the first time in a long time I'm not in the middle of ripping chapters apart or stitching timelines back together. I finally have the space—and the clarity—to make this blog something intentional. Something worth reading. Maybe someone will even find it interesting. Stranger things have happened.

This won't be a "how to get published" blog. I haven't cracked that code; I'm still in the middle of it. What I plan to write about is the work itself: the process, the craft, the longer arc of building a story across years and drafts and setbacks. Some posts will go deep into the world of The Sylfaen Chronicles. Others might be about quieter things—what I'm reading, what I'm learning, what the archaeology degree unexpectedly turns out to be good for. None of it will be urgent, and that's the point.

If any of that sounds worth following, I'll be here.