Welcome to my world.

I’m a writer and, most of the time, I’m either writing something or doing something related to writing.  I’m in the middle of a huge project, the beginning of a series (I hope).  It’s called Pirouette: it’s a dark fantasy about a ballerina, a war (actually two), vampires, the Fae, and demons hell-bent on ruling the world.  I suck at the blurb thing, so hopefully that’s not too painful or cheesy.

Anyhoo — the first draft weighed in at 399,915 words.  *faints* It took 13 months to write.  It was supposed to be a standalone (that is, not part of a series or trilogy), then I decided it could be a trilogy, then read an article by S.L. Viehl, one of my favorite writers, that changed everything.

Now it’s a standalone, with the possibility of becoming a series.

Which means I have to prune, refigure, restructure, and retrofit.  Alot of the extraneous plot threads are getting moved to other books.  The basic plot is roughly the same.  The world has undergone some huge, gi-normous changes, as well as the race of the characters.  The war is bigger in scope, and there’s another war –an invisible war, if you will.  The magic system has been completely redone.  It’s basically a new book.  Why did I change so much?

Well, for one I was going for uniqueness.  I love dark fantasy/vamp books, and I’ve read the same thing so much.  So much.  J.R. Ward astounded me with her Black Dagger Brotherhood series.  And I got to thinking…..what if I did that?  Not copied it, obviously, but put a new twist on everything? 

Some convos with a few writing friends later, and I have something I believe is pretty unique, or at least a bit unique, which was the point, and the goal.

I have two other WIPs at this time: Survivor, a psychological thriller that’s been in progress for 2 years, and Requiem in Blue, a cyberpunk/sci-fi experimental thing that I’m poking at in between spurts of genius about Pirouette.   Pirouette is the GOAL though because I want it out to agents by early to mid next year so……

Gotta make it happen.

Stay tuned.

Also, visit my public, “official” writing blog at http://erinkendall.wordpress.com.