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It's been a long time since I shared something I was working on. I thought I'd give you a bit of the dragon story that I am. Today. Tell me what you think. :) NOTE: This is a draft, subject to change. All rights reserved. But you CAN share the link to this if you would like as long as everything remains intact. =============================Snippet============================ Closer . Still no sounds appeared outside the door. Nothing moved, nothing stirred. Through the window, she saw no wind, no shadows, nothing lurking about. But something was out there. It slid across her skin, within her flesh like millions of pins prickling against her nerves. Everything heightened. Even the forest beyond the cottage seemed to have stilled. Waiting. Sensing something headed her way. Alara backed up to her bedroom until the back of her legs smacked against the mattress. She almost tumbled backward. Steadying herself, she leaned to the side and stretched her fingers out. Wi...

I decided that this weekend would be left up to cleaning and editing. I've had a lot of dishes pile up (our dishwasher broke years ago and we haven't had the moolah to replace it) over the past week so that's one thing I have to catch up on. The other is the cleaning and organizing of my desk. Whenever I decide to do an out with the old, in with the new moment, I try to go through my entire room, and see what can get ditched. Mostly minor things that have piled up around my room or desk area that should be dealt with so I can have a clean work area. Nothing like a clean kitchen to make me want to cook all day, and the same goes for clean and organized work area. Production gets boosted. It's weird how such a little thing can make a drastic change. I am constantly changing--aren't we all--and try to redo myself overall a lot throughout each year. So when that feeling strikes me, as it has this week, I know I just need a change. In my private life there have be...

Starting work on Winged Shadows 2  today, then Hope of the Future tomorrow. If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. As long as you tag your post and share with #wwab, I don't care if it has to do with book writing, or just blogs. Saturday Updates:  WINGED SHADOWS 2 Starting the book at: 5,239 words. 944 words .  2952 words. 3218 words  Ending the night at: 8,472 words total Sunday Updates: HOPE OF THE FUTURE Starting out at: 87,754 words. 810 words 2296 words.  Today is a practically impossible day to write. Yesterday too. Nobody wishes to leave the writer at work alone. Oy. Ending night at 2396 words , book at 90,098 And don't forget  Always Consequences   is officially in Kindle's KDP Select awesome program for 90 days (until Aug 1st). If you're interested in keeping up with the free download days, you can click the link abo...

Current State: Zombie. I want to thank everyone who helped me with promoting the free download of my book, Always Consequences  yesterday. I really and truly appreciate it. I also want to thank my Street Team and those who downloaded it. You're all amazing and wonderful. So thank you. The next date to download for free is at the bottom of this page. Which is July 18-19th . Those are the final days to download for free before  Always Consequences will be released from the KDP Select program on August 1st. This weekend, the only two books I even have to work on. Normally I would do the furthest behind, but I am doing Hope of the Future today and then Winged Shadows 2 tomorrow. If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. As long as you tag your post and share with #wwab, I don't care if it has to do with book writing, or just blogs. Saturday Updates:  HOPE OF THE FUTURE Star...

This weekend I will be trying to start Winged Shadows 2 , but for now, I will work today on Hope of the Future. Left it last week at 80,235 words.  If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. As long as you tag your post and share with #wwab, I don't care if it has to do with book writing, or just blogs. Saturday Updates:  HOPE OF THE FUTURE Starting the book at:  80,235 words . Just not getting time to write today. May be quitting soon and only gotten around 2,551 words  now. Aggravating, but we have a few dogs who don't want to be nice cooperative people today. Up and down, up and down. Oy.  82,759 and I'm going to end tonight with this. I can't concentrate with everything going on. It's making me an angry person trying to. Off to research for Winged Shadows 2. I was hoping to do it all week last week, but I couldn't get around to it. I do have the beginning scene in...

Well, since finishing the Dark Illusions series, I don't have a choice, but to work on the other two. I was going to start Winged Shadows 2 this weekend, but after I scheduled my newsletter, I forgot that I have to research the book and see what all I want to do with it. I've got all your feedback in my messages still and then I have a scene where Kora is telling Bradon off in my head. Apparently she is through with his shit, despite him thinking he's the one on top. Oh no, no, no, she says. Not anymore. Not when she has the boy to take care of. Since I've had no time this week, I will try to research next week and then start next weekend. Crossing fingers. I've been working on the updated Winged Shadows cover and the Dark Illusions: The Next Chapter cover too. The DD cover has to be updated because I used licensed pictures and will have to re-license this year, but I am still limited as to what I can use the cover for and I don't like that, so I'm mak...

The two I will be working on this weekend are:   Dark Illusions: The Final Chapter  (72,664 words)  and  Hope of the Future  (70,464 words) .  Now, the DI book is technically not the furthest behind, but last week, I worked on Hope and The Sorceress so I'm going to do the DI this week. Also Hope because I didn't get to work on it as much as my head started killing me and my eyes were sore. If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. As long as you tag your post and share with #wwab, I don't care if it has to do with book writing, or just blogs. Special Announcement: I'm going to start work on the book cover for the next in the Dark Illusions Series ( Dark Illusions: The Next Chapter)  and I wanted to make a special note regarding it because of the people who were gracious enough to allow me to use their faces. I am also grateful for the opportunity to call them both friends. Love...

Furthest two behind are Book Five of the Sorceress Series  (63,621 words)  and  Hope of the Future   (65,582 words).  Now I can dive into the Sorceress book like I've been wanting to since I last left her. Had so many ideas and they are still fresh and anxious to go since I stuck with working on the others. It's been two weeks since I worked in it, last week was the other two, so that shows how long the craving can last! haha If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. As long as you tag your post and share with #wwab, I don't care if it has to do with book writing, or just blogs. Also wanted to let you that I updated the  Always Consequences   Official Page. The book is officially into Kindle's KDP Select awesome program for 90 days. If you're interested in keeping up with the free download days, you can click the link above in the navigation bar, or:   http://www.arianabro...

Furthest two behind are Hope of the Future  (58,006 words)  and  Dark Illusions: The Final Chapter  (65,464 words).   My fingers are itching for want to work on DI first, or the Sorceress book because I'm in that zone  with them, but I am refraining. Gotta stay focused. :p Keeps the brain fresh. If you would like to join in, and have others check you out, tag your posts #wwab and include link in area below. Also wanted to let you that I updated the  Always Consequences   Official Page. The book is officially into Kindle's KDP Select awesome program for 90 days. If you're interested in keeping up with the free download days, you can click the link above in the navigation bar, or:   http://www.arianabrowning.com/2013/03/always-consequences-official-page.html The next free download is June 4th. Saturday Updates:  HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Starting this book at:  58,006 words . 3,492 words. 4,674 words . 6,709 words ...

Furthest two behind are Sorceress Book Five (57,149 words) and Dark Illusions: The Final Chapter (57,540 words).   (Random oldie of when Sabrina {Australian Shepherd, currently 12 yrs} was helping me rebuild that part of the back porch.) Saturday Updates:  SORCERESS SERIES: BOOK FIVE Starting this book at:  57,149 words . 1140 words 2616 and off to make dinner. Thinking I may work on this tomorrow. We shall see. Back later. 4620  and last update of the night. Not sure if I will work on this tomorrow or not. Would like to. For now, I'm ending the night for a total of 62,057. See yous tomorrow! Sunday Updates: DARK ILLUSIONS: THE FINAL CHAPTER Total to start:  57,540 words . Will be working on this today after all. I decided I had such a good (read: intensive) write yesterday that I needed the break. Late start. Been working with the gremlins and now my mom currently keeps asking for this and that and that and this. Let's get...

{EAV:47f5cc63826d9fad} This weekend we will be working on Hope for the Future and Book Five of the Sorceress Series. The furthest behind is Sorceress book, but I'm going to work on Hope for the Future  instead. My creative brain is having problems with the Sorceress book. I know it's the final as there are no new ideas that are tumbling through me which would get me to continue it, but at the same time, the ideas I AM having are being goobery in the brain. So ... working on a different book. Saturday Updates:  HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Starting this book at: 54,486 words  total. 1398 words so far. Lunch and coffay time. 2685 words  and brain is kaputting. Or trying to. Thinking about what I will make for dinner. 3357 words. Off to make taco salads/bowls for dinner. And tater tots. Must not forget tater tots. Did you know you can make a homemade tot? Sure can. I made them myself and loved them. I wrote out the recipe I used here:  http://old...

This weekend I shall work on: Sorceress Series: Book Five. Word count is at 48, 266 total right now. I've been giving thought to turning this book into a 3rd POV, versus the 1st, but we shall see. Tomorrow will be Dark Illusions: The Final Chapter  and the total word count for this one is at: 52,341.  The cleanup of Dark Illusions: The Beginning has been going well. I'm hoping it won't be much longer that it takes me to do the polishing (as my lovely editor called it). Going through and making a list of the things to look for specifically, has helped a lot in the editing and cleaning up phase. If you haven't got your copy of Always Consequences  from Smashwords yet, and you use something other than Kindle to read, I'd suggest getting your copy now. The book will be pulled around the 26th to make sure it's clear to upload into the Kindle Select KDP program on the 1st of May, until the 1st of August. You won't have a chance to purchase the book for anyt...

Time to get writing, I'd say. Getting late in the morning. The two behind this time are: Hope for the Future  (total at 46,444) and Sorceress Book Five (word count at 48,266 ) .  Saturday Updates:  HOPE OF THE FUTURE Starting out at 46,444  for this book. 627  words so far. A wee bit distracted today. 1423 words total for the day. Yay! Not really, but life gets in the way sometimes. I'm happy that I got as much done as I did. I may just work on this one tomorrow too. Still need to percolate the Sorceress book in my head.  Sunday Updates: HOPE OF THE FUTURE Decided I would just work on Hope of the Future again today. So far, 1193 words  this morning. 2371 words so far. Coffay break. 5936 words   now.  6492 words and wondering how long this book is going to end up because I'm still working off the MS I had before, but will switch back to the old one soon. Then, I have a lot of ideas to go off them both. Eithe...