JFlah's Blunders

Tentative Cover Image for Volume One Last night, I had no words, so instead of beating my head against the wall, I created a cover I'm pretty happy with. Thoughts? Writing almost every day both during my lunch breaks, in the evenings, and on weekends in addition to a hairy busy job... I'm weary. I was so thankful I could rest last weekend, but I'm still dragging so I'm glad it's Friday. There's nothing quite like losing myself in creating the story, in editing what I've written and other such fun bits of writing; however, knowing writing a novel is time consuming, hard, and labor intensive versus actually living through it... well, you don't know what it's really like until you've done it yourself. I mean, I can't tell you guys how many versions I've gone through - versions meaning, drafts of things that include major changes/additions to the previous version.  I have certainly developed a respect for professional writers ...

Curse of Royalty volume one - tentative cover mockup - jfleming 2017 Many who know me well are aware that I enjoy writing stories. God's gifted me with the ability to put those stories down, the time to develop that ability, and it's something I've enjoyed doing since I was a little girl. A few weeks ago, I spent my stay-cation finishing odds and ends after the flood at my house and putting the spit shine on volume one of a book I've been writing off and on for just over twenty years. Yeah - I know what you must be thinking - twenty years? What a loon. But really, I think the totality of what I've written could have been done in less than a year if I'd have had time to focus on it (and enough brain to devote to it). In 2010 I had written myself into a corner - took the story into a direction that I wasn't comfortable with. It was difficult, but after some research and some soul searching (and feed back from readers), I cut the unpalatable story line ...