I finished a novel a couple of months back. It was a project of mine that started over three years ago. I had an idea and a premise, but it was extremely difficult to get anything written. Of those three years only about six months of that was writing. I had originally written a story based on my premise, but I wanted to go back and do the history of the world, an origin story, so I started over.

But, as any writer knows, you have to put something aside for awhile and start on something else. That something else is the novel that was published several years ago. It was the only novel I had that I thought would be worth publishing. I read it several times, correcting grammar and spelling and then I went through each chapter and asked myself questions about it. Currently I'm rewriting a good portion of the book. I think it's a good thing I'm doing it now because I have a better grip of what's good and what's not in a story. I always just write first, but now I go back and make sure that everything makes sense and that there's no plot hole or a section where a person could just have no idea what's going on.

I'll continue to update this and say how far along I am.

On the subject of reading, I have a few chapters left in Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. It is keeping my interest, but it seems to be an introduction book.

ben f.