Story writing again, my percolating thoughts, May 05, 2017 Gratiana Lovelace (Post #1061)

I’m finally reaching a point in my leg surgery and convalescence almost mid point that I am getting back to writing on my stories again.  During the first month, I could only read other people’s stories—for distraction.

And since I’m working from home in the daytime while recuperating—love the electronic age, and glad that I still have a job due to FMLA–I only have a few hours each night to devote to pleasure writing after checking in with friends on social media.

And I literally have several dozen (over 48+)  stories that I have started and may be about 30 to 50 to 75 pages in on writing them—in various genres, and many that I have already created the cover art for—such that I am picking a different story each day and writing a little more on it.

Partially, I rotate my writing choices to reacquaint myself with some of my in progress stories—some started long ago, but stories that I had stopped working on to make way for other stories that I have already serialized for you here and on my Gratiana Lovelace Wattpad site.  See my sidebar at right for a sampling of my recently serialized  stories–such as “Encouragement” (right), which is having quite a surge in readership on Wattpad in the last few months and is now my 4^th most read story out of 28 works.  Of course, my most popular story on Wattpad remains “N&S:  John Thornton, Love Lessons” (below) that has now exceed 90,000 reads.   Thanks everyone!

But I am also trying to decide which story that I want to serialize next for you—here and on my Wattpad site.  Story selection is key, because not only do I hope that you like and read my story—but because my stories are often serialized over several months, I have to really like the story to commit my time and my energies to it for such a long period of time.

And I am a notorious re-arranger of my stories—their chapters.  In the sense that, what might start out as a beginning, ends up becoming a middle and I decide to write more backstory for it.  This was the case with “Sir Guy’s Atonement” (Book 3) (right).  I had started with the big plot reveal (no spoilers) and then I realized that I needed to work up to it more gradually.  So my original Ch. 1, ended up being Ch. 25—out of what ultimately became a 46 chapter story.  Ha!

And so I am constantly rewriting my stories until the moment I serialize each chapter—and even then some, to fix typos or strange symbols that crop up due to editing glitches, etc.

So while my in progress story writing is percolating, I just wanted to let you know I do hope to serialize a new story of mine in the next month or so.

Cheers!