#34 In progress!

I posted the image below on my FB page yesterday as sort of a pat-on-the-back to myself to remind me that I will soon be finished with my 34th Michael Grant novel.

Here is the comment I posted along with the image below:

“I sometimes wonder where the time goes. It’s not that I am a recluse or prefere to live the life of a spider. My process of writing is called WITD: Writing Into The Dark. (Which doesn't mean I am actually 'writing in the dark' thought that can happen. [grin]) You don’t outline, plot, or plan. You write what your characters say and do, as they say and do it. So as the author you are ‘just following your characters as they move through ‘their world’, of yes, intuited make-believe. Which means I never know where the characters are going until they are there, and never know where the story ends untill they quit telling their story.

But, the great part is that when you write novels, you get to not only write the story but you get to be the first one to ‘read’ it as it unfolds. Trouble is it takes longer to write the words than it does to be a reader of them. Unless you are fiction writer: Harvey Stanbrough, who to me, writes at the speed of light! (See harveystanbrough.com who famously says: "I will lie to you. And you will enjoy it!")

#34 You Have To Believe ME! is in progress... and probably will be out sometime next month... if the characters have anything to say about. (grin) FYI: If anyone decided to count the titles on the back cover of this image, you would have discovered 32 titles instead of 33. I inadvertently left out #31 'MISSING', (Ironic, huh?) which comes after 'Hole In The Water' and before 'The Bird & The Ring'. That will be corrected before going to print.”

In case you can't quite read the blurb above, here it is:

Stories. We all tell ‘stories’, especially if a cop asks you, “What happened?” or “What happened, next?” Sometimes the story is stream-of-conscious truth, or a bald-faced lie. Maybe it’s somewhere in between the truth and the lie. Sometimes they think it’s just a game of ‘truth or dare’. But what kind of story do you tell when your life is on the line and it’s ‘truth or die’?

Regardless of the story teller’s veracity, the truth or partial truth they reveal… When their life is on the line, what is the most often question they ask you before they begin, or somewhere in the middle, but always at the end?

It’s: “You Have To Believe Me!”