Update

Sorry for those of you who are reading this blog, it's been awhile since my last post. So, here is what has been happening.
Writing.
I am 3 quarters done with NEW YORK, now titled DESTINED. It is at 65,000 now so I estimate it to be around 75k-80k words.
After that I have another idea for a story but that will have to wait. Right now I am just finishing up the school year, getting used to the idea that I get to sleep in.
Nothing else has really been happening, JulNoWriMo is coming up, not quite sure if I'm going to do that though.
But yeah, that's pretty much it.

For reasons I won't go into at the moment I have put The Third Year on hold and started on a project that I have been thinking about for a while now. The working title is New York.
The what if factor. I have been given advice to started a story with the what if factor for a story. I took that idea and used it. My result: What if you found New York city buried in an ice glacier two miles underground?

I have decide to make an update once a week for those of you who actually read my blog.

WIP: The Third Year
WC: 4,400
WG: 65,000

The Third Year,
What if a quaint world was invaded by demons? A small town in 1791 is invaded by 'aliens', or so they think. After the abduction of Jonathan, a seven year old boy, his sister must do everything she can to get him back. The town is under siege, the aliens blocking every exit with a laser-beam, she must find a way outside of town and toward Jonathan. But when a savage discovery leaves her helpless, will she turn toward God, or away?

Stranded

I have a plan. Maybe not a very good on, but I have a plan. And its name is: Stranded. Stranded is a story that I have written but is way too short to be a novel but way too long to be a short story. So, my plan.
I was thinking that I would get it onto a PDF file and set it up as a download for free as a gateway to my other work. I don't know if you read A Newbie's Guide to Publishing blog but J. A. Konrath did exactly what I'm planning to do and he's selling hundreds of copies of books a day.
So, to give you a synopsis of the story


Five men on Survivor, a space craft, are on the way to the nearest star. A failing economy on earth leads the U.S. to pull out of the mission. The team is stranded with twelve hours to live. One man who has a faith, two men who have lost their faith, and two who are just as ready to kill than breath.

Genre: Psychological Thriller

I've started taking a highlighter to my novel Prophecy and started my first edit. This is the first time that I have ever edited a novel, my previous novel was edited by someone else and so I was expecting something way different from what it really was. I was dreading it, hearing about the woes of editing on the net and all those other resources out there. But it's not that, it isn't that at all. It is enjoyable...yes, you heard me right, enjoyable.
So if any of you are writers out there who are about to enter the editing phase I will tell you: It is tedious, but it isn't burdensome. It is like taking off your backpack after a five mile long hike. It's very refreshing.

I've been tagged!

So I've been tagged! I have to post ten books I would love to live in.




So

Rise of the Dibor by Christopher Hopper
The Wrym Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson
Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
Three by Ted Dekker
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkein
A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz
Starfire by Stuart Vaughn Stockton
The Strange Man by Greg Mitchell
Duncan's War by Douglas Bond
Gone by ???

The Winner!!!

And the winner is....

Son of the King!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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~Surnak