After finishing Dark Medicine, I needed a break. Between the writing and mostly everything else in the community I am working on and my bill paying job, I pushed myself to the brink of burnout. I am back now, but I am leaving Dark Medicine in the tomb for a while as I work on a novel in a different genre (see The Guardians)

I am also taking this opportunity to inform my readers that I am re-looking at my bloging schedule. The purpose of these blogs is to inform, share, seek opinion and promote…but, before I went silent I felt my schedule was out of control and stealing the time I needed to actually write Dark Medicine. The weekends yields the most time I have to write, and I am posting blogs on the weekends…which shows that I have split my priorities. The novels should be my top priority. Later this week I will announce when I will move this blog to. At this time, I am pondering moving this and the blog for The Guardians to a weeknight.

The first draft of Dark Medicine was clearly too ambitious. Looking back at the original plot and thinking about how it evolved as I wrote it, it grew to be larger than what I had imagined. I had designed Dark Medicine to be a gothic tale of different kinds of vampires, with a dash of ghosts, and a large dash of paranormal and shake it up in a story style that reflects the more classic vampires rather than the growing trend that is shown by Hollywood. As I think about reviewing the first draft I know that I am considering breaking it up or killing off a sub-plot or two …maybe hold it off to a sequel (assuming some agent shops it to some publishing house to publish it).

These are the things that are being pondered for when Dark Medicine comes out of the tomb like Lazarus.

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