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Date Posted: 01:01:31 10/18/11 Tue
In reply to:
Wes
's message, "A landmark passes" on 20:33:45 10/17/11 Mon
>The uploading of Chapter 16 of Picking Up the Pieces
>Sunday night is a landmark of sorts.
>
>My writing sometimes tends to be off and on. I got to
>about the point where Chapter 16 ends one night in
>late 2005, and went down to the office the next night
>to work on it some more. I sat down at the computer
>and just didn't feel like writing that evening. Or the
>next evening. In fact, it was almost two years before
>I could work up the enthusiasm to go back to it, and
>at that I stalled again for several months after a few
>chapters. I had a pretty good idea of where the story
>was going, but I just couldn't work up the interest to
>do it. Granted, I had a few other things going on
>during that period, such as my father's death and a
>move, but the big reason for lack of progress was just
>lack of interest in writing.
>
>But all the while, I knew I had a pretty good story
>hanging unfinished. I went back and re-read what I had
>done several times, liking it and thinking I ought to
>sit down and finish it, but I just couldn't bring
>myself to do it. I started a couple other stories in
>that period, but couldn't finish them, either.
>Finally, I sat down one evening determined to peck
>away at it, and managed to do it. What's more, when it
>was done I sat back down and started a new story, and
>a new series at that. That's a story in itself that
>I'll tell when the time comes.
>
>It was about that period I also started the Spearfish
>Lake Tales web site, digging into the collection of
>stories I'd built up over the years. It seemed like it
>would take years to post all that I had on file, and
>with that chapter of Picking Up the Pieces, I've
>finally reached that point. Generally speaking, most
>everything I had in the queue when I started Spearfish
>Lake Tales has now been posted. Granted, there are
>still a couple pre-dry spell stories waiting to be
>posted, but I've also put up a couple post-dry spell
>stories to balance things out. Right at the moment, I
>have stories waiting in the queue for posting to keep
>going until early 2015, so there's going to be plenty
>to read for the next few years.
>
>I might as well say that it's going to be a while
>before there's another Bradford Exiles story. I have
>one completed one left, but it's set several years
>after Picking Up the Pieces. I hope to place a couple
>in the intervening period before I post that one --
>which needs some serious work, anyway. I have a couple
>brief starts on follow-up Bradford Exiles stories and
>a couple ideas for further ones, but I don't know if
>or when I'll get to finishing them. I haven't done any
>work on the Bradford Exiles in years, and it's hard to
>get back in the mind set when I have newer ideas and
>newer series to work on.
>
>In the next year I'll be introducing two new series.
>The first of that series touches lightly on Bradford,
>and then well before the Class of '88 kids were born;
>the rest of the series is set in Bradford, but mostly
>with new characters. In the other series we'll be
>going back to Spearfish Lake, sometimes with
>characters familiar from the Bradford Exiles, but more
>often with newer ones. Because of the way the existing
>Spearfish Lake and Dawnwalker stories are
>interrelated, they've tended to get stuck in the
>2000-2002 period. The new Spearfish Lake books will
>get out of that rut; in fact, the most recently dated
>one is set partly in 2011, although it'll probably be
>another few years before that gets posted.
>
>All in all, there's lots of new stuff to come, and
>some of it, I think, is among the best writing I've
>done. There still are more stories to tell, and I plan
>on telling them.
>
>-- Wes
This is good news for all SFL Tales fans!
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