Welcome back, everyone! It’s past time for an update. I have three projects I’m working on now.
I have 450 pages written on Intrepid Force III, but I had problems with it and took a break from it. I’m starting back now. It doesn’t really need to be any longer, but I want to take a few things out and put some other things in. Those stories always have to have a few twists and turns. Here’s a piece of poetry I wrote for the beginning of a chapter where the Intrepid Force team is investigating the wreck of a spaceship. One of the passengers was kind of a deranged genius.
His brain was like a haunted house
With monsters dwelling in the dark.
I ventured there to find the truth
But feared lest trespass leave its mark.
For when you stare long into night
The night stares into you,
And cold’s dark hand imprints your soul
And bat’s-wing chills soak through and through.
~From Haunted Forest, a book of poems by Enoch Henry.
(Enoch Henry is one of the characters from the story.)
The Season Out of Time revision is pretty much finished, but I’ve rewritten the ending a couple of times, and I want to make sure I’m happy with it before I put it out there. I think I want to let a couple of beta readers take a look at it.
Weird and Wonderful: An Exploration of Life, Faith, and Personality Types was a little bit of a surprise. I started working on it around the last week of April, and I’ve got 180 pages written on it. It’s pretty much done except for minor revisions. I’ve done some presentations on personality types at college conferences, and last year some of the students asked me if I had written a book they could buy, so I thought I’d better write one. You’re probably wondering if I’m using the Myers-Briggs, the Big Five, the Enneagram, the DISC, or the one Tim LaHaye used with the Cholerics, Melancholies, Sanguines, and Phlegmatics. Actually, they’re all in there. We’re trying them on for size to find the underlying similarities and differences, and I’m using stories to illustrate them. I’ll have to post a few things from it.
I still want to wrap up the Intrepid Force graphic novel too, but I need to finish these other projects first. The graphics application class I took in the fall inspired me to try some new things.
Keep checking in, folks. I’ll post a few snippets of research or teasers from my projects over the next few weeks.