My Apologies

Dear Shell,

I must apologize for my lack of correspondence lately. I do not have any excuse other than, I let Facebook and Farmtown sway me away from my blog. A recent personal message on the Writer's Digest forums that I have a new follower has reminded me that, maybe I should get back into blogging again!

I have to admit though, Farmtown was fairly amusing for quite awhile. I started out with just a couple plots of potatoes. Now, my farm is at the max size, I have a farmhouse and a small house, a barn, silo, windmill. A river going through the farm. Flowers, lots of flowers. Also quite a few orchards, oranges, apples, coconuts, pears, mangos, etc. Currently I am a blueberry farmer, as I went through and figured out the best profit per hour for every crop that is available to me, and at level 28, blueberries have the best profit (not counting the 2-4 hour fast crops that you need to harvest every few hours in order to make money). I have enough neighbors that I qualify for hiring my neighbors or strangers to harvest crops and plow fields.

Okay, okay, now you're probably sitting there asking," well what about your writing, did you neglect that too?" Rest assured, I am still writing. Is it good writing, I hope so, or at least i hope i can make it good after revisions. I'm still working on editing Dragon Eye. Boy does it need a lot of work! It's scary how much work it needs. But when you consider I wrote the majority of that novel in a month's time, and it was my first time writing a full-length novel, it's understandable why it's not quite that great right now. Crystalvein, my second novel, is going much smoother. Although I'm still not 100% sure if I want to keep it in third person or not. I've re-written the first chapter three different ways to test out different POV (point of view) and a different storyline. I've decided to stick with the original storyline with one small change, and most likely it will stay third person limited for point of view.

Well I'm starting to hear thunder outside, and if it's anything like last night, we're in for a hell of a storm again. And I have to admit, that does worry me because we're already flooded pretty bad as it is. Every park in town is flooded, some are waist deep or deeper. A few roads are blocked off because the river is over the road now. And our backyard is a lake because the river broke over both banks. Too much more rain and I'm going to start worrying about the house floating away! Although then we wouldnt have to worry any longer about the leak in the roof that showed up pretty bad last night.

I will do my best to blog more often,
Shell