Out of Spoons Error

I decided to shelve the werewolf book for the moment.

This is still a story I want to tell; these are still people I want to see on my bookshelves. I initially went with the werewolf book idea in the first place because even though there are many urban fantasy books with werewolves (and I usually do my best not to write something the market is saturated with, at least not with the intention to publish), I wanted to write about intersectionality and werewolves.

 

( Cut for nattering )

Right now that is very much not happening, as my day job upheaval continues (though there might be a light at the end of the tunnel—I really hope it's not the Hogwarts Express) and my need to have the mental energy to go back to Skywatch increases. I also think I may be going about the book itself in the wrong way, which will require more distance and more energy than I have.

As of this moment I still plan to write this book, or one that looks an awful lot like it, but I don't think I can write it now.

So I'm going to start doing the very beginnings of research for Moxie (Moxie is going to require months, if not years, of research, and that research will likely continue as long as I keep writing the series)—research without goals, just background reading whenever I happen to have the mental energy and a free half hour, because my life is not working with writing goals at the moment. I also plan to go back to Skywatch soon; mental energy or not, I really needs must get that out there.