Writer's Block And Bliss Updates

So, here I am, calmly minding my own business, pounding away at keys as I stomp through the first chapter of The Forgotten, and suddenly I realize that despite the outline and the familiarity with the characters, it's a substantially harder book to write than The Graceless. You see, readers, Graceless was always about the characters. It was about developing them, making sure that the reader was emotionally invested in them. But then I get through it, I publish it, and somehow... They lose that spark. Sicily's story is also character-oriented, I suppose, but they're mad at me now. They know, somehow, the things that I have put them through and they're starting to fight back. Maybe it's the mere idea of Jack's slow redemption that's driving them away from me. He has made himself out to be quite the villain, after all, but those of you reading already know that.

What's more important, I find, is that the Chainsmoker Trilogy is slowly giving way to a greater story, outside of the microcosm of Jack and those who he affected with his disappearance. I feel that the series may be taking a very new direction by the time I finish the last act. Somewhere along the line, they asked for a break, so I'm respecting that and focusing for a while on Bliss, a mostly unrelated novel.

I did promise in this title that I would be talking about Bliss, though, and so I shall. It opens with an unfamiliar scene, a beach of violet sand, with a green sun hanging in a slate-colored sky, and we are introduced to our heroine, a confused young girl named Skye. She remembers only her name and tries to make sense of the strange world she woke up in. It's a different story than The Graceless, that's for sure. It's fantasy, an epic tale of redemption, soul-searching, and the battle between good and evil, but it retains some ties to that first story, going so far as to even speculate on the fate of some of the characters.

Hoping that Sicily and her cohorts will speak to me will ultimately do no good. It's definitely time for me to focus on Skye for a little while. She needs some love, after all.

Thanks for your time, dear readers.

This is Rosenbloom, signing out.