A Few Hours Alone and Writing

Due to a lot of travel this summer for family visits and for selling books, I haven’t had the time or the energy to invest in writing. I have kept up my journal and done some bare minimum blogging, but as for the novels – two works in progress – very, very little. Then, in the past few days, that has been changing. I switched my writing spot to the dining room table rather than at my desk in my library/office/computer room. The idea was to have more light, especially since the house has been dark because of overcast skies, a condition that continues as I write this post.

I have only a few hours to write as it is our anniversary and we will celebrate it with a long walk along a dirt road before heading into the prairie hills with views onto Lake Diefenbaker. Following our walk, we will stop to buy Chinese food for our anniversary meal, a tradition based on our first meal as a couple following our marriage ceremony at a Chinese restaurant in 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta. There will be no more time, nor any time wanted, for writing for the rest of the day.

As you may know, the historical novel which has a Celtic god as a narrator, is being published serially on Wattpad. This speculative fictional novel traces the roots of my ancestors from the 900’s to the middle of the 20th Century. So far, the story is beginning to tell the tale of an ancestor, Guillaume Longpre, who historically took part in the first Crusade, the same man who fought at Hastings with William, Duke of Normandy thirty years earlier. The history is real which requires a ton of research, the story is as close to the truth as can be had with limited historical evidence beyond basic facts such as time and place and names.

The second work in progress is pure fiction, again a speculative novel involving Celtic deities who become the protagonists and the antagonists in a story that has no boundaries when it comes to deities being present in the modern-day world. Like the first work mentioned above, the story is being told in installments. However, I have that story appearing at my Patreon site which means only patrons get to see the story develop. As with all my stories, I write so that the characters in the books come across as real, complex, and typically complexed people, even the characters who are deities.

Both stories are beginning to develop much quicker with the infusion of new energy within me. I will be scheduling their serial publication so that my readers will continue to read while I am in Europe with my wife for six weeks – we leave in two weeks from today. I will be blogging our journey in Europe which has much to do with the historical novel in terms of research of places where my ancestors lived from the 900’s to the 1300’s. But the journey will be much more than research. But rather than say more, I will leave that for when I am there and I have photos to go with my thoughts.