It's May and the skates are on... Getting off the plateau and back onto the roller coaster

It's been a while since I last posted.  The icy and wet days of January and February seem to have faded and now as I sit in my Writer's hut, the sun streaming through the windows reminds me that time is marching on to my first draft deadline of end of June.

The Stranger Within is making good progress although at 57,000 words, I was hoping to be further on by now. The story is now beginning to resemble that of a high plateau.  If you think of a graph with the peaks and troughs representing mini climaxes (Ooh er Mrs) and inciting events, my story has now reached a slightly flat piece of ground which despite the terrain, I could only describe as hard work.  It is a romantic suspense piece, so Red Herrings are dripping like red rain drops and even I am beginning to wonder just exactly who did it (only joking).  I am enjoying my hero (don't we all) but most of all, my anti-hero is shaping up nicely.

The next two weeks will see me push forward as much as possible and no doubt I will be back on the roller coaster of peaks and troughs I need to make the story work.  Targets are always difficult to maintain when you  have no one standing over you with a big stick, but as the summer looms and family life intervenes, finishing the book has to become a priority.

Look out for my posting on 12th May when I take part in the My Writing Process Blog Hop.