Power Stabilized

Just Over Two Weeks to Go

In just over two weeks I must leave this lovely country behind. Not my happiest moment. I was emailing with a new business acquaintance this week who said she knew of droves of people selling in the US and moving to Costa Rica but nobody making the reverse trip. Just a little something to make me feel even more discouraged at having to go. But there are positives and I have been trying to remind myself of them every day, chief among them that I will be back close to my family. In the meantime, in order to cheer myself up, I have started planning and plotting my next book. Normally I am what writers call a pantser, meaning I just sit down and write, with the story elements in my head but without an outline, and if the creative process takes me away from my mental picture, so be it, the creative process wins. That is how, for example, in Power of Three of the Power Rising series, the little alien child found her way into the plot. She wasn't in the Plan but insisted on being in the story anyway. Yet for this most recent endeavor, I feel as if I need to keep better track of my various character and story arcs. The work on this new book will carry me out of Costa Rica and back to Washington state, and will hopefully help heal some breaking away wounds.