Current Writing Projects

Hi all,

Today I wanted to delve into what I've been writing recently. In 2017, I wrote a few full novels, especially during the Camp NaNoWriMo sessions, where I tend to write two or more full novels.  Which is great. However, it also leaves me with a lot of unedited first drafts on my hand.

Which is why this year I want to tackle a lot of those rewrites. I'm also going to be starting a new project called Dear Laura which will be written in a format new to me and I'm still figuring out all of the details. More updates on that one coming in the near future.

For now, here are the books I intend to get through the first stages of editing this year.

This year I'll be focussing on three novels in a companion series I've been working on.

Scintilla 

- A tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barely visible trace.

It's been a rough year for Sasha. Starting with the accident that ended her gymnastics career in May and ending with her flunking out of high school almost exactly a year later. Everything seems to be going from bad to worse and she's given up. Her bedroom seems as good a place as any to spend her summer.

Her parents have other ideas. Not willing to let her sink into her self-pitying darkness, they insist upon her spending the summer at their old vacation spot. Lake Wilson. It's just what they think she needs and the last thing she wants.

There might just be one bright spot in her summer. The boy across the lake, Mateo.

On a break from college for the summer, Mateo's parents convince him to join them at the lake where his mom spent her summer's when she was growing up. Giving up a job at a publishing house, he tries to make the most of his summer.

The last thing either of them expected was to fall for someone this summer, but that's exactly what starts happening.

As the summer unfolds, though, Sasha starts to wonder if Mateo's telling her everything. Most of the time he's the perfect guy until he starts disappearing for days at a time with no explanation, then continues to become more and more withdrawn whenever he is around.

Could Sasha's one bright spark be fading out before it can take light? And what is causing Mateo to so suddenly withdraw from her?

Lacuna 

- An unfilled space, a gap.

Magnolia Grace never knew her real parents. When she was a baby, they were killed in a car accident, leaving her to be raised by their best friends, who took her in as their own child. Even though she grew up with a mom, dad and a brother and sister, she always felt like there was something missing in her.

At her mom's suggestion, she travels to a small lakeside community in California, where her story began. She spends the summer exploring Lake Winston, where her parents met, fell in love and started their family. While she's there, she attempts to reconnect with her grandparents, who exited her life the day her parents died.

Tensions and emotions run high as she tries to fill the gap inside her with blood relations.

It's not long before she starts to regret the trip, that is until she meets Wes, her grandparent's gardener and the only person she feels she can talk to openly. 

As the summer progresses, Magnolia realizes she may find something she wasn't even looking for.

Sonder 

- The realization that every person is living their own vivid life. 

Layla is a solitary person. Home educated since she was nine, she doesn't have much contact with the outside world and that's the way she likes it.

Each summer her lakeside town floods with tourists and while the few friends she does have, flock to the water, coffee shops, and other attractions. She retreats to her room where she works on her blog.

This summer, she's trying to spend as much time with her best friend Gina as she can, before Gina leaves for college in the fall. Only Gina wants to be out and having fun, not stuck inside wasting the days away.

Then things start to happen. Her mom gets invited to travel the country to bring her fitness classes to different gyms. Gina falls in love for the first time and even Gina's grandma has booked herself on an African Safari. Everyone around her is living a vivid life, while she sits inside watching other people enjoy life from afar.

Something has to change and this is the summer to start taking risks. Starting, with leaving her house.

So, there are my current writing projects. Have you got any projects on the go or that you intend to start this year? Let me know in the comments and please share and subscribe if you liked this post.

Until next time,

H.