This past week, I’ve set aside everything to focus on one work in progress: Before The Edge. I entered a little friendly contest with a dear friend, and we’ve given each other a month to finish a project. The one I chose is BTE, a prequel to On The Edge that shows how Brett and Lisa first met before Leo came along. It’ll be a short story, somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 words I think, and I’m about 1/3rd done. Brett is being absolutely adorkable and I just want to pinch his cheeks. Lisa… wants to pinch a very different part of his anatomy

Before the contest started, though, I did work on One Last Lullaby. Let me just say this: the first chapter starts with a sword fight between Andrew and Jacob… and ends with Andrew and Nicholas in bed… Why, yes, I am a tease, didn’t you know?

I have also finished the edits for His Sire’s New Pet – but should I include that in my Writing Wednesday? Since I’m making the rules, I guess I will! There’s always a moment of self doubt after I’ve looked at a story for too long, but that doubt was nudged back when the first reviewer said she enjoyed the story. I can’t wait to see what she thought of it… and what you guys all think!

And alright, if you’re my friend on Facebook you know I lied when I said I set everything aside to work on Before The Edge. I was browsing through old files the other day, just looking at ideas of stories that I never wrote and probably never will write, and one of those ideas shifted into something else – something that I will definitely be writing. I’ve been feverishly jotting down notes about the heroine and the two heroes, about their world, and how its magic works, and how they are going to grow closer, fall apart and find each other again other the course of 8 or 9 novellas… Oh, this is going to be a FUN one to write!

Tomorrow, back to The Edge for Brett and Lisa’s second date