Art and Work

I’m so excited to announce that I am working with a local artist to create my logo for my newsletter and author page. She has taken my rather vague musings and created something remarkable. I’ve only seen the initial sketches so far but I’m thrilled! When its finished I’ll unveil it here.

The artist’s name is JoLynn Intermill and she is very talented. She appeared on the local news when her work was featured in an art show sponsored by Team Enough Denver, a youth-led gun prevention organization. You can see some of her work on her Instagram at: @jolynn.intermill.art.

I have no doubt she will have a long and successful art career by whatever definition of success she chooses.  Perhaps one day we can collaborate on some book cover art when I too have had some success. I have a way to go before I get there, but getting this logo on my newsletter and getting it up and running are a big part of moving forward as an author.

So is getting the manuscript actually finished. I’m afraid I haven’t had as much success with that as all these new events in my life have made scratching out time to work on my subplot difficult. Fortunately I’m not on a deadline so any movement forward is good, and I am not getting discouraged.

Once life settles down a bit I’ll be back at it, not to worry. Truth is, I am doing what a lot of writers do, or so I’m told, which is finding lots of things to do so I don’t have to actually sit down and write my story. I’m not procrastinating with active intent, but the end result is the same.

I had planned on trying to get an outline started during my Thursday afternoon writing sprint session, but it was cancelled. So I played around with my new software for plotting, learning how to navigate through it and then actually started using it to help me identify where the best places were to insert subplot elements. It’s really cool how much easier it is to use than I thought.

I won’t bore you with any more about that, but I’ll just say now I’m excited to get started on my outline. Maybe I’ll have some time this weekend. Time to get my Friday started.

Have a great weekend my friends.