When it rains, it pours, or something. If you recall, less than a month back, I told you about my new fantasy work. Well, new old, so to speak. I’m writing from scratch a book that I’ve already written, more than 20 years back. Now, the idea is jolly solid, only the original volume is a ponderous 630,000-word colossus that simply isn’t fun enough. Fixing it turned out to be an impossible task. So I set about writing a brand new book, reusing the core story concepts. This has been going brilliantly. I’m already 35% done, some 60K works so far.

I have to say, I’m having so much fun. The old characters are all there, but now, they have more depth, more complexity, more humanity. I’m adding twists left and right. Fresh conflicts. The story is taking shape, and there’s a rich background world. Lore and characters combined. Now, I am be entirely deluded of course, but I feel quite confident you will love this book! Well, this is but a short progress report. Off I go smithing some fresh words. See you around.