First Polished Chapter (Teaser!) Comes out January 21st, 2015 [Oops...Just kidding.]

I [was] super Excited to be releasing the first chapter of this adventure January 21st, 2015!  Woot!  :) [and then I pulled a George R.R. Martin...  Soon is what I can say.  I'm still working on having a super solid arc to follow from the notch of my bow to the target that is "the end."]

I'm dutifully working on a conceptual outline of the adventure I've written.  This means that I am looking at everything I said in each scene - not the details of what the world looks like - but what am I saying.  I.E.  "Emma believes Ben is going crazy."  or "The village thinks Ben is going to bring disaster to them all." or " Ben worries the village might be right, but he is compelled to see what lies beyond the mysterious door." 

These are plot, character, and relationship elements that matter to the telling of the story.  I am doing this because, as happens with many works of fantasy, many of the world elements from the start of the story do not stitch well with the elements from the end of the story (or middle for that matter).  This 'essentials only' outline is laborious and fun because I can see what scenes are ripe with engaging moments and which scenes are really a few pages to say one or two things.  This also essential for giving me the space (emotional distance) I need from the details that I've written.  When I finish, I will be able to more comfortably change physical world details - rather than pounding myself in the face with my ceramic fish vase over and over about how to reconcile the awkward elements.  I appreciate pain avoidance.  So, I'm taking this story-centric approach, and then letting the story happen on the world my characters and I discovered together. 

fish says, "follow the path of least resistance."   Apparently, Fish is a Taoist.