What have I been up to?
So, if you didn’t know, I’m not a “full time” writer. Shocking, right?
I work full time in the financial services industry (I work
in a bank but no, I’m not a teller). I’m
in a special rotational program that allows me to take on a different role in a
different department every three months or so with the goal being to build up
my knowledge of the organization before “placing” into a permanent role. That isn’t to say that I’m not a full time
employee right now, far from it in fact.
From an organizational perspective I am one of their beloved “FTE”s as
we call them. Not a part-timer, not a
contractor, but a full time employee.
Now, this rotation schedule means that every three months
life gets a little hectic as I transition from one team to the next, go through
some pretty extensive training for my new role and begin acclimating to my new
team. While this doesn’t require me to
work a bunch of overtime, it does leave me pretty exhausted at the end of the
day. Hence why I tend to disappear for a
while from time to time. I do love writing
and see it as one of my professions (not a career), but when I get home
exhausted from work I can’t always bring myself to yet another computer to put
in the writing time. That and the work I
would be doing would pretty much need to be redone at a later time when I’m
more alert.
That being said (er... written), I have devoted a lot of my
weekends to writing and this weekend is no exception.
Right now I have two works in progress (WIP). The first one is the sequel to my first
novel, Witch Hunt. A few working titles
right now are: Between the Heart and the
Head, A Witch’s Heart, and The Witchling.
The story itself continues where the first book left off. Mike has found out he has a nephew, causing
him some emotional duress, and he needs to go find and train him. Forces are, of course, working against him
and everything starts to blow up in his face including his relationship with
his naturally soul bound partner, Rick.
A lot of the story again pulls in things from Mike’s past that he isn’t quite
ready to deal with but he find himself staring them down. Overall, it comes down to whether Mike trusts
not only those around him but himself as he, taking a page out of my book, is
his own worst enemy.
The second WIP is a short story I am writing for the
Goodreads group M/M Romance’s Love is Always Write event. The idea was to look at a photo they had
posted and the group members were to write prompts that we writers then jumped
in and created short stories from. I
chose a really cool black and white photo of a guy playing the guitar and the prompt
I chose was a very angst ridden one about a guy longing for the guitarist to
notice him. The story I created... well,
I’ll save that for another post. ;)
ttfn
~Nick
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