At the very least I am a film actor.

Let me explain. My novel, and my short stories, are written linearly I started at the front, write  the beginning, then the middle, and then the end. After that I go back and edit and clean up. Deleting bits that didn’t work, tightening passages and sentences until they go from crap and so-so.

What this mean is that the emotion hearts of the scenes are written as they occur. Love and Loyalty has me in some new territory.

I have a list of 13 new scenes that need to be written and inserted to expand the scope of the novel to fit my new vision. They are not being written in a linear fashion. That means one moment I’m writing a tender love scenes between two characters and the next scene is one of characters manipulating and deceiving each other, then to a scene of high-powered politics and office games with dangerous consequences. Emotionally I am being whipped back and forth as I write in a fashion to is alien to me, yet it has not been a stough as I thought it would have been.

I can see the end of the process. (thank god) I so want to push this out to my beat readers and see if this is working as well as I suspect.

I also want to get back to reading novels and to writing them. (I don’t read novels while I write one because if I did better writers would suck up all my time and I would get nothing done.)