Still in beta. On chapter nine of twenty-seven chapters right now but that chapter number may increase, husband working on it, I'm working on it, Nans working on it. Slow going. My husband turned the epilogue into a new chapter.

Hello Julie , welcome.

Little snippet from Chapter One: A Man of Death
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I get inspired by something, sometimes just a word, or a fact or canon. I find the right title and that starts the story. I never do outlines, they don't work for me. That doesn't mean I'm a genius    it just means that I do better when I'm fairly unrestricted. (My husband had to find that out the hard way.  It was traumatic for him.) I just jot down words, phrases. They all generally change. When they change, I know the story is working, it is flowing.
I complete several chapters first. My perfectionist husband edits and adds to or subtracts from what I write as I write.  Sometimes the characters we create dictate changes. We finish, and then we go over it for errors, etc. Now it is in beta by my friend Nans, she also suggests additions to it as she corrects it or confirms something with us.  While that is going on, I'm checking it too.
Husband turned the final chapter back into an epilogue after I hit him with a frying pan suggested it. I found more research material. Yessss, I founddddddddddd it! So we add it in.
While all that is going on, we're tossing around scenes for the sequel, and come up with possible titles for it.
I don't usually work this closely with my husband, but it really seems to flow along now. If this partnership is responsible for having turned this thing novel length, I'm in serious trouble. I thought it was my muse. I suspect now that my husband is my true muse, and always was.
The Maelstrom is finished, so hopefully it will be in Library  fairly soon, but I have more material I want to go over, to see if it fits.
The other factor is our health, sometimes that forces us to stop for a while, but we discuss the story even then.
My stories are my (and my husband's ) canon.
You aren't gonna like Lt. Ford in this, Matt. 

I find it fascinating that you and your husband are able to write together.  That's rare -- even when both spouses are literary people -- and very special too.   

How soon can we expect to read the story? 

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No. If ever opposites attracted-   Ford?

Denise the story is done, I just have to add more detail I just came across.  I'm waiting on Nans to finish beta. I'm waiting on a busy Deborah to finish a project.  I have to wait too.

Neesierie wrote on Mar 1^st, 2011 at 1:12pm:


Me too!   

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That's an essay I would read!

  Woo-hoo!   

deborah said some time next week. In the meantime I'm posting Chapter 2.