I’ll post a more detailed February update next week, but at this point, February, like January was a bit of a mixed month. I’m beginning to think that’s the way of the world: some good, and some not so good.

Last week’s short story, is a case in point. It was my forty-third consecutive story in the one-a-week challenge, and came together pretty well, except for the ending, which seemed a bit flat to me.

After I’d finished, I went through a little angst about it. Should I have outlined, and come up with a better ending? The end of that road is insanity, and there are some in my family who will comment that I’m only a short drive away! The thing is, if I rewrite the ending whole chunks of the main part of the story need to change or leave, and then it’s not the same story.

In the end, I decided to leave it alone and maybe one day I’ll write the other version. It won’t be this week. This week I’m back with Tiswin my Mage Weaver.

All I know at the moment is it snowed last night in Cloudcroft. I had the usual moment of doubt about where the story’s going and then this morning I was reading the Success Principles by Jack Canfield. At the start of one section there’s a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.:

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

I think that’s a great statement for everyone who writes into the dark.