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A Matter of Persistence (Otherwise Known as an Elyce Day): Writing Update for 5/28/18)

I have to give it to my co-worker.

B Davis worked 8 to 6 almost six days a week. She lived far from our work place than even I did. She was in charge over a lot of details. So the idea of her even being off was nearly impossible unless it was a holiday.

So she had what we have called elyce days.

It was days that she took off a few times a year. Not even a vacation. Those days were days that she stopped to take inventory and get some much needed stuff done. Outside of work stuff. Life stuff. It was a matter of getting caught up.

This past week, I decided to do the same.

My brother was getting ready to get married. While one of my jobs had hours that were consistent, I also had a job where my hours were not consistent. Meanwhile as I mentioned in other blogs, I had several books that I planned to self-published…books that I did not seem to have time for.

Needless to say…this was time for an elyce day.

For Want of a Cover: How Are Things With DARKENED SOUL: WITCH’S ABYSS

It was all a click away.

Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss had finally gotten finished. My epilogue to Book 2 in my Darkened series Darkchilde, Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss was a dystopian mystery starting Aidan Hillworth. Aidan was one of the narrators in Darkchilde. He was a witch that only wanted a normal life. However, no one really chose the life they wanted.

So Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss had been an interesting ride. I had no idea that I would write another story involving Aidan at all. I thought his journey was over. So I was excited at the surprise. However, there was one thing.

I could not find a cover.

It was a specific setting. It was a specific protagonist. It was a specific idea.

Everywhere I looked when I looked for covers I found female protagonist when I needed a male. I only found spy thriller covers when I looked for mystery. I saw covers for sci-fi, but was hardcore sci-fi.

All I could do was growl.

Running With Scissors: How Are Things With DARKENED SOUL: THE BREAKING OF CIRCLES

It was coming together.

When I first started my side-project a year or so back, I had no idea that it would get so near to completion. It was a nice distraction for working on Crossover or a blog or the third book in my Darkened series. However, I wanted to release it before my third book.

It dealt with so much backstory. Not only of the characters that populated my various novels. It explained the origin of the prophecy that ran through my Darkened series. It showed the beginnings of the Nosferatu circles. It explained how some of the characters were the way that they were.

Before I knew it, I had 100 plus pages. Before I knew it, I was sitting down one day thinking of the novella that was the centerpiece of my book collection. I realized it.

I was almost done with it.

Given the amount of time periods that the collection encompassed, there was going to be a lot of research to it. Still…I could not believe that something that was just an idle hobby was now a new book.

Then I took a look at my job schedule. My eyes frowned. I saw that there was nothing, but hours among hours of work.

When would I find the time?

Then it came to me.

What Was in a Day?

I saw down at the coffeehouse. I just had some good Greek. I could easily just sit there and people watch alone. It was in Hillcrest so there was plenty to see. But…that was not why I was there.

It was an elyce day.

I did it some time ago. I saw that I needed a cover for Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss. I also needed research time. There were a lot of writing things that I needed to get around to. So when it was time for me to ask off for my brother’s forthcoming wedding (I’m the Best Man), I also put down some days. In my wildest dreams, I was thinking about EDC aka Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. I had not gone in years. Perhaps I should go.

I didn’t. Maybe next year. LOL!!!

However, I had asked off for the time. So…I figured that I might as well used it. Besides a lot of my friends said that I worked way too much. I was driven. However, there were times that I fell into that trap that I called so busy working that one forgot to live. I didn’t want to be that way. If I was not living the way that I wanted to, what was the point?

So there I was at the coffeehouse. Could I tune out all the eye candy? Could I focus on something more important?

The answer? Yes.

I clicked. I clicked some more. I clicked again. Some were okay. Some were dazzling, but not what I was looking for. Some might even be potential future ones just in case. All however were covers. And for once, I was making the time to look at them. It felt exciting that I had this block of time to look at covers. Where had this time been all this…well…time?

Just as interesting were the in-between moments. Looking at covers could be tedious after a few hours. So I managed to up that time by multitasking somewhat. My Facebook pages definitely needed attention. I had begun posting teasers from Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss a few weeks ago, but time had gotten away from me. Best to get back to that.

I admit…I did not blog as much as I used to when my blog was on MySpace. Heck, back then it was a big deal to write 100 blogs consistently. Now…it took effect. Or maybe…time? So I started to work on my latest blog. It was not as pop culture-y as my last one on Supergirl (http://someplace-that-is-else.tumblr.com/post/173531453553/long-may-she-reign-how-supergirl-righted-the), but it was about something that I loved…writing. It was nice to get back to writing about the life of a writer. It was sorely missed.

As I neared the end of my time for the day, I started to ponder what I would do. The floodgate had been opened. A nice writing groove had descended on me. I really did not want it to end. As I thought that, I wondered…what I was doing…was it worth it? After all…I couldn’t even find a cover.

My mood saddened.

Keep Going

Doubts? Me? Really?

Perhaps it was the fact that I had not found a cover. On my last few books, I did not recall it taking months to find one. Weeks sure, but months? Perhaps it was the fact that I had not released anything in 2017. Perhaps it was that now that I had time, I was worried about going back to same old, same old.

As I took the bus home for the evening, it was those thoughts that were in my head. Part of it was good because I was totally in writer mode. However, part of me did not like those thoughts there. How could I shut them off? Did I want to?

Funny thing about doubts…they pass.

It seemed simple at first. Most people who have seen me on my Writer page (www.facebook.com/writerguygothic) know that usually I do a post called ‘Editing, Writing, Typing.’ In It, I talked about what I was working on for the week and the various progress. It was a way to see if there was something I should be doing. It was also a way to be sure I was working on something. It was through that that I noticed that I was not writing. So I had been working on stories for Darkened Soul: The Breaking of Circles. Jacob’s section still needed to be finished for the novella within the novel.

It started so simple at first. There were several scenes within the novella that were told by several points of view. I felt like I was not digging into Jacob enough. So I started to take the time as I wrote to dig deep. If I did not feel it, then I simply did not write. Given what was to happen at the end of his section, I needed to give Jacob some happiness before it was taken away from him. But how to do that?

I had some personal drama. Relationship drama. Since relationships were central to Jacob’s character, I decided to see Jacob’s situation like my own…just with Nosferatu. And then…it snowballed. The writing flowed. The rhythm moved nicely. And the ending was tragic.

However…I wanted more.

The genie was out of the bottle. And once I found myself done with Jacob’s section, I found that I wanted to keep writing. Thinking. Plotting. Planning. I began working on the epilogue for my novella. Meanwhile, I needed to keep my momentum. I WANTED to keep that momentum. So I kept going. I kept pushing. So I pushed forward on finding a cover for Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss.

And as I was about to step out for the evening…I FOUND IT.

AT LAST!!!! There it was in front of me. It fit the story. It fit Aidan’s character. I was in awe of it. And just in case, I had backup covers if things did not work out. I felt a smile on my face as I stared at it.

While part of me had been ready to step out, I had stayed in a little longer. I had kept going. I had been the one thing that a writer that self-published needed to be. I had been PERSISTENT. And in the end that had paid off.

Of course when you see one sign, you see another. I had mentioned that I had not published anything really last year. However, I had been writing. And like seeds to ground, they were growing out of it. I had been so busy writing that OOPS!!! I had multiple projects this year to work on. When one had been slowed down by a setback, I always had another one in the wings to work on. As a result, books were now falling into a timeline that would result in them being done. First Darkened Soul: Witch’s Abyss. And then Darkened Soul: The Breaking of Circles. And next up…the third book in my Darkened series.

So…as I got ready for a new week, all I could think was one thing. It had been a good elyce weekend well spent.

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