My WIP (work in progress)

This idea has been a work in progress for soooooooooo many years. I initially wrote this book when I was about 16 years old, and finished it when I was about 25. So many things have changed in this book but it's one that has been dying to be finished. I remember staying up late in my parents living room typing on the large keyboard, starting at the big giant square monitor that took up half the dining room table with it's black screen and white binary code-like font pouring my thoughts down on what my characters were going through. I've grown so much, mentally and physically and as a writer that I've needed to re-write the entire work, twice over the last 10 years. I find this novel my safe-haven....something I can always count on being there to work on. UNTIL NOW! It will be finished soon...oh yes, it will be finished.

I believe it to fall into the Murder/Drama genre now. It used to be young adult, but I threw in a couple of bloody explicit scenes so I would not recommend this for anyone under the age of 16, I guess, maybe rated R. If I can do that.

So what I'm working on right now is a novel called Blue Sky Exposure. Blue Sky Exposure, is about a psychiatric hospital in the isolated town Blue Skies, West Virginia. This hospital has been secretly exposing its patients to a non-FDA approved drug. This drug increases ones awareness of the sense ESP. Things spiral downhill when their most exposed patient Robert Dorgan escapes. Murder comes easy as Robert tries to make them pay for what they have done. Innocent blood is shed as he tries to bring down the hospital.

This book stands at 68,000+ words, and is 258 pages long and has been broken down into 34 Chapters. It does still need some work with closing loop holes and whatever happened to that one character from Chapter 3...

So as I push my way through the edits I am currently on page 165. I'm reading through it, correcting any grammatical errors and any present/past tense issues. I would have loved to be done editing this before November 1 because Nano will take over my life on that day. Editing takes probably 3 times longer than you think it does. How hard is it to read 250 page softcover novel? Now imagine reading each sentence slowly. Change one word in that sentence, now does that flow better? Are you getting the right vibe sent to your readers? How about moving this sentence behind the last one in the paragraph, now how does that sound? Wait! This entire paragraph would look so much better back in Chapter 23....ooo then I could move Chapter 22 behind Chapter 24 and.....now you can see how easy edits seem to distract each other, when all I did was start off changing one word.

I'll keep you updated...