Does absence make the Heart grow fonder?

I was always told the ole' cliche "If you haven't got something to say, don't say it," was great advice. (Yes, I understand that there are other variants, one of which is; if you haven't got something good to say, don't say it.) I've also been told in ALL the Indie author stuff I've ever read that you should always have a blog and always write in it on a regular basis to keep readers interested. While I understand this to be true, I also understand that if you're writing a blog for the sake of keeping it regular, you're doing it for the wrong reasons and you need to self-evaluate. If you've got something to say in a blog, then by all means, giterdun!! But I have had nothing, so why bore people with meaningless gibberish? Bore them with meaningful rubbish instead.

I have been deep in the writing phase of Starbird II. I've got a sub title for it, but am not really prepared to release that just yet as it appears that it won't be the one I stay with for book two. In fact, there might not even be a book three. Here's the skinny.

As I have been deep in the writing process, I've been trolling ahead in my mind, trying to figure out where the story should go and how to get it there. As I have said in previous entries, sometimes the story and the characters take off and do their own thing and I'm just there writing down what's happening instead of creating it. As this has happened, I see the purposed ending of the entire story looming closer than I had originally planned. As I'm doing the math, it is conceivable that I could end up finishing the book in the same number of pages I wrote the first book. I already know what the closing chapter will be like. In fact, I've already written then ending chapters of Starbird II. Other than my editor and a couple of beta readers, no one knows what that purposed ending is. Don't worry, it's REALLY good. Some of my best work.

But like the first Starbird book, I again feel like this is taking longer than it should. I remember when my little brother, Roger, (not so little to me), started his latest work on the Rayne Chronicles Series. I got to read the first raw chapter and that was it. Haven't seen anything from it or about it for a year until a couple of weeks ago when he announced that his editor, (our big sister, Vera), had completed the editing on it and he was going to finish up the revisions and go to E press. Seems like it took Roger a lot longer to get this latest work through as well. I think he's a lot more patient than I am.

I'm hard at it, even though I don't say as much about it as I did with my first work. You kind of get a little jaded when Peter yells wolf all the time. Better to come to your friends and fans with something fresh to say, or holding the finished painting, rather than just talking about it.

One of my beta readers asked about the sequel to Thulsa's Gate. Yes it's there, but on the back burner until I can finish Starbird II. I think they were more interested in seeing how a certain character was going to be woven into the story. Like the vineyard growers of Italy; We shall serve no wine before its time. Until the next entry, enjoy the face of a new character introduced in Starbird II. That character's name is Dasha Mantose. Yes, that is a photo of the late Amy Whitehouse, but that is how I envisioned the character. Amy was a very small woman. Dasha, on the other hand, is a very tall woman.