9/15/2024

I just returned from a trip to Seattle for a wedding and took in the sights in the area and up through Canada in BC and Alberta (Banff!!!). Had a great time listening to Dennis E. Taylor’s latest book in the “Bobiverse”, Not Till We Are Lost. It is a great start to a new arc for the series. It was Ironic, listening to it as we drove through Whistler Canada, a place special to the author.

My book is coming along. I credit an online course provided by Jonathan Maberry. A master class he did last month removed a lot of mystery to me on the editing front. Also armed me with the proper questions to ask to prospective professional editors. He also provided some profound (to me) points about writing and not editing until you finish your first pass. “Allow yourself the freedom to grow…” and so forth. Anyway, it rung home to me, so I am doing that and following his well blazed path. To anyone looking into writing, who has a story begging to get out, I strongly recommend following Mr. Maberry on any of his multiple platforms. His master classes are $50 for a live class on Zoom. They cover specific topics, and he goes into depth on each. Jonathan, If you are out there. Thanks so much for both the classes and the free stuff you have on your personal site that has made this process even more enjoyable than it could have been.

The book is coming along great according to the readers who have gone through the parts that I have mostly completed. After the finish of the writing, I am now looking forward to following the process that JM laid out in his class. I feel the characters in the story have the richness I have been going after. I believe that the characters tell the story, and you can only be as interested in them as I am when I create them.

So now that the wedding stuff is over (Congrats Lara and Tyler) I am back at it to push this thing to a completion!

E. J. Josephson