Wow time really does fly...

Ehurm... I see it´s been quite a while since I last wrote something here... sorry about that!
I will try to better myself, not that I have that many readers at the moment, but hopefully that will change in time.

So a little update then perheps.
Progress with writing has been nonexistent the past three months, in all areas. Summer is sadly enough the worst time for me, I can´t enjoy it, can´t think, can´t write... simply can´t exist at all. So therefor I have not updated this blog either, there has been nothing to report.
As the weather however grows colder, the days grow darker, this confused writer blossoms.
So my plan is to grab ahold of myself again, and seriously begin staring at the screen and my 8 or so dictionaries, and let the keyboard sing once again!

Where my co-author is concerned, not much has been done there during the summer either.
Meeting up with her this week hopefully to see where we stand with the project.
On my part I have decided to re-write the whole first chapter on our joined story, it just does not feel right. The language is CRAP! Which anoyes the bloody hell out of me obviously, for not only am I confused, I am also a big time perfectionist where my work is concerned. There simply is no room for crapy language, bad descriptions and such stupidity on my behalf.
I am very much acquainted with the saying "Kill your darlings"... as heartbreaking as it meight be it is sometimes very necessary for the sake of the story.
So that is basically where I stand at the moment, killing my darling, slowly, painfully dissecting him into itsy bitsy teenie weenie pieces of text, hoping to put him back togetter in a fashion that is fair to his beauty.

However non existant my writing has been during the summer, I have not been completely idle!
I have found loads and loads of music to work to, I have registered on yet another writing site where I plan on uploading my stories, I have pleasently discovered that my language skills in Sindarin are still good although I have not even opened the study books since early mars, AND lo and behold I have done some serious mindmapping on all of my stories!
Where I have failed miserabely is in my research on mixing the tenses... which I apperently do quite alot... I am still clueless as to whether this is acceptable or not. Some (the majority online anyway) say that it is where fantasy writing is concerned, some say it is not.
So basically what I will try to do is find myself a beta reader with english as a nativ language, whom can lead me on the right track in this matter.
Any one interested perheps?

Okey, enough small talk, time to hit the keyboard and do some productive writing!

Cheerio

//Monie