Spring Forward, Fall Back (in Love with Writing)

Hey everyone!

As we welcome March, we're noticing how strangely time moves during the writing process. One month flies by while another seems to stretch on forever!

What We're Doing

Time Warp

The pace of things feels increasingly difficult to measure. Angie feels that 2024 flew by, and January wasn't too bad, but February—with its Saskatchewan deep freeze—felt about four months long. Fast, slow... sometimes the writing journey defies our usual sense of time. These newsletters certainly seem to come around quickly!

New Tools, New Approach

We've reached an exciting stage in our work on Wolfe's Blood. Angie is now going through David's changes and additions to the first half (the part she originally wrote), and we've adopted a new writing app to make the process smoother.

The new system helps us organize our writing more effectively and solves one of our ongoing challenges: file management. With our current setup, we're working on separate files from the same shared folder, which helps us avoid confusion and duplication. Finding the right tools is always a balance between simplicity and functionality, and this one seems to be working well for both of us.

Navigating Plot Puzzles

February brought some writing challenges as David worked through a section involving multiple chapters and characters. It wasn't just about scenes that didn't feel right—it was about solving the puzzle of who knew what when, and how to reveal elements of the mystery in the most compelling way.

The process involved reconsidering characters, redistributing dialogue, and sometimes bringing characters back in different contexts. After much retooling, we've found a path forward that feels right.

Rediscovering Our World

While David was working through structure, Angie found joy in revisiting the story—making comments, debating story points, researching settings, and exploring the geography of our fictional world. She feels like it's similar to looking through an old family photo album, reconnecting with familiar faces and places.

This process has reminded us that we're each other's first readers—a special relationship that helps strengthen the story. But ultimately, the greatest pleasure comes from knowing we're crafting something to share with you. Storytelling is truly a joy, especially when we get to connect readers with characters we care about.

Until next time, happy reading!

Angie & David

P.S. We tried to come up with a good “time” pun to end this, but we ran out of... well, you know!