Protectors Saga Update

Boy oh boy does if feel like its been decades since I released my last Protectors novel.

Let me start by saying – I will never be Stephen King. I will never be able to write an entire book in a few months. I believe the man either found a genie and made a wish or sold his soul, because his talent and ability is inhuman. Mine is very human. And despite the fact that I have kept my self-resolution of writing something every single day (sick days don’t count), it still takes me a good year or two or three to finish a novel. I’m a “mood” writer. I always have been. I always will be. If I’m in the right writing mood words will flow. If I’m not, I’m lucky to eek out a usable sentence.

A little while ago I gave an update about the next Protectors book, explaining that I had been having a hard time with writing it. There were some personal tragedies/hardships I dealt with right around the time I was starting the 6th book they kind of stuck with me. I maybe should have taken a little break from writing it at the time, but I love the story and wanted to finish it. Turns out, that was a mistake. I second guessed EVERYTHING. Every little writing choice. The voice of the story. It was a creative minefield. And then when I had finished, I hated it so much I deleted 60,000 words. Let me repeat, 60,000 WORDS!!!!! That turned out to also be a mistake (who would have thought), and left me in a depressive writing funk. Note to self…don’t make rash judgement choices you can’t undo without taking a few hours – days – weeks to think them over.

What happened next sort of turned things around for me – I moved on to writing another story. Yeppers, I wrote and finished a 138,000 word novel about Greek Gods (I’ll go more into that book in another post). But after I finished that story, I got back into the groove of writing the Protectors. Now it’s far from perfect or where I’d like it to be, but instead of deleting, I’m moving forward.

But even while I’m “writing forward”, I do realize this story has been a loooooong time coming. So, because all of my amazing readers have waited so patiently – and I still don’t know when the book will be done done (like I said, I’m not even close to being a Stephen King) – I have decided to release the next book in chapters on my blog. When it’s actually finished it’ll be released as a book just like the others and I’ll take down the chapters. But until then, I wanted you all to have something of that world back. So once I get the first few chapters back from my wonderful beta readers, I’ll begin posting them. Expect the first chapter sometime in the first few weeks of May.

In closing, to all my readers who keep asking about the next book and pushing me to write it…thank you…thank you…THANK YOU! You guys are the reason I haven’t given up. You’re the reason I keep typing away. You remind me just how much I love the Protectors story and all the characters. Thank you!

~Paige