In Shadows

Chapter eleven is finished. Yay, team! Looking over my notes for chapter twelve shows some major additions. The only way to portray the pair of them falling in love is to stretch out the travel between Provey and Azrael’s villa in Wrendon. They have to be firmly entrenched in love by that point. So let [...]

I’m attemting to increase the angst for Ursula. She’s intmately aquainted with Azrael’s brutal side as well as the passion. In the original manuscript, I didn’t play this up as much as I could. On the flip side, there’s another issue from Azrael’s point of view – that of royalty falling in love with slaves. [...]

Chapter 11, didn’t change much in the first scene. I added a bit about the death of Shonal’s father, and that Azrael had not been home to re-swear her fealty oath to her cousin, the new king. The next scene abruptly starts two days later as the army leaves Provey. I’ve decided to add at [...]

Chapter ten is complete. Now to dig out chapter 11.

Working seven days in a row without much time off to edit or write. (Too many chores at home, too! LOL!) Here’s a bit from the morning after from Azrael’s POV. My aim is to show the arrogance of the ruling class toward slaves in general, though offset it with concerns for her slaves as [...]

A question from a reader: I noticed that your old website is gone and therefore I am unable to access the Infinity Series. Is it being hosted on another site? Please let me know as I am interested in reading the entire series. Thank you. The Infinity series (and all other stories that were originally [...]

I found a cool new program! Visual Thesaurus rocks! It’s not an extensive as the full meal deal (the book,) but great for writing on the fly. Many thanks to Sheila for the link on her blog!

Whew! As I stated before, I’ve been editing this chapter to include two separate points of view instead of the mass of confused ‘she felt / she felt.’ Since I felt the scene was more powerful from Ursula’s point of view, that’s where it predominantly sits. But I didn’t want to lose so much of [...]

After reading blogs written by other authors, I decided to hop on the bandwagon. I started at LiveJournal, and made a few friends there. I’ve spent time ranting about politics, celebrating life, taking silly quizes and keeping general tabs on my writing. I decided to create another blog, this one hosted on my website. My [...]

About halfway through chapter nine. Slept all morning after graveyard, piddled about on my website, took a shower, and ran some errands. After dinner, the wife and I watched Gothika. It was pretty cool though I don’t see how Halle Berry escaped a prison sentence, regardless of what her old man was up to. I [...]

Finished chapter 8. I work graveyard tonight and have tomorrow off. I’ll have a go at slogging through chapter 9 then. Ursula has weathered the slave auction and now must deal with the emotions involved. Here I’m attempting to beef up her confusion as well as the negative emotions she has toward Azrael. “Are you [...]

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The old webhost is no more. All hail Dreamhost! As you may or may not have noticed, I’m still importing my LiveJournal entries and editing them. (Only up through July of last year.) Have been deleting some bizarro political stuff as I want this blog to be the primary information outlet for my readers. All [...]

I’m importing my old LiveJournal entries to this one. In the process, the html programming gets screwy and the categories are all set to the default ‘computer.’ Have a look around on the menu bar, though . . . all links should be active. If there are any errors, email me at djredhawk at earthlink [...]