Time To Get It Done

It’s been over two years since I first started working on Ancient Magic. Well, ok, only about a year since I changed the story and characters, but I stayed in the same world and kept most of that worldbuilding.

Two years ago, I began this odyssey not really knowing what writing a novel would entail. Since then I’ve read how-to books, spoken to other writers, taken online writing classes, participated in forums, and I follow several writing blogs. I read in and out of my genre and I write.

Looking back, it’s been a long haul and there are times I get frustrated by the slow pace, but in the last couple of months there’s been a shift.

Change is Feeling More Comfortable

I am a recovering control freak. 

Whew, I feel better now.

Change makes things hard to control, so my motto was: “I don’t do change”.  I even joked about it.  Kinda ridiculous, right?  I mean, what else is more common than change?  It’s the only predictable thing in life.  

But I fought it, clawing and scratching every step of the way.  

While I don’t still feel that change is a roiling mass of evil, threatening life as I know it,  I haven’t jumped in with those sickeningly perky people who proclaim “change is GOOD!”,  either.