It has been a while!

First let me check-in.  I have just under 37,000 words.  Yeah, it hasn't been a very productive few months.  I decided to focus on my family over the holidays and found that the days just slid by. 

Fortunately I have had this growing irritation in the back of my mind.  Growing to the point that I couldn't put off writing any longer.  So, I began.  I decided that I needed to change the starting point of my novel.  I needed to introduce my main antagonist early.  As a matter of fact, I decided that he should be readers first taste of the story.  The scene in a small way introduces my plot, it introduces main characters and the driving force behind them.  It sets up several of the promises that I want to make to my readers.  It was just a much better beginning than I had originally written.

So, I am excited.  It was really fun to write. 

Also, I began a small, private, writing group that meets in my home.  This should be a wonderful way to put the heat back on me to continue writing.  Since it is such a solitary task I think that it's important to find ways to bring other people into the process.  It makes is so much more exciting to know that people are going to read your work and get a pulse for how my baby is coming along.  I don't want a Frankenstein creature after all -- just a killer.

Perhaps I will post my first scene once I have polished it a bit.  Later!