Well, I did promise to start serializing a vignette on the blog starting in July, and being July 1, it seems a good way to start the month, right? My unstructured muse was so excited about me doing some writing “purely for fun” that I started to dash off a few lines after the “work day”, just to get the thought processes going, and in 20 minutes I’d put out 1000 words. So apparently, July 1 is a perfect time to start (smile).
All my weekly blogs won’t be vignette serials from here on out – there will be weeks I’ll still post some of my usual “Deep Thought” ruminations (God/dess help us), or tell you about current or upcoming things that may interest you. I intend the vignette serials as a great way to stay in touch with “why writing is fun”, something that every author needs to keep her contracted work filled with the same sense of excitement and inspiration. At least, that’s my theory.
So here’s how it will go. I’ll serialize each vignette until it seems to come to a proper stopping place, and then I’ll send the full HTML file to Terry, who runs my yahoo fan group. She’ll post it in the files section so you can visit the story again whenever. And then I’ll start serializing the next vignette idea. So on and so forth.
Be as interactive as you wish. Comment on the vignette, good or bad things, what you wish would happen, where you’d like to see me go next, either with this vignette or a whole new idea. Can’t promise that I’ll always go in that direction or grant that wish, if the muse is tugging me hard in another direction, but it’s just as likely I will! So don’t be shy. As far as vignette ideas, they can feature characters from ANY of my full length works.
Final note (and then I’ll stop babbling and post Part I of Tyler Tied Up in the post directly after this one) – I’m going to try and not be an anal editor on these things. The point is kind of a free flow, so if you see the occasional typo, please forgive me. However, that said, you know I can never abide to do shoddy work, so if you think a vignette is substandard, you let me know that, too! I want you to enjoy reading these as much as I’m enjoying writing them.
All right, off to do a last quick read through, then we’ll post that vignette…
