Greetings from the cave! 

Let me get the bad news out of the way first. The White Rose is on hold again.... temporarily. 

Those of you who follow me on Discord and Instagram know that I have finished the line edits that I received from my editor. It took me three years to get to this point. The parts I was able to salvage are pretty decent. But there are several holes (again), and I am having a lot of issues getting a cohesive theme and scenes. So I am going to take a little break from it and let the scene ideas percolate through ye old muse for a little while. 

This issue has brought home the fact that I have been constantly been in "edit" mode for....a long longer than I should have. When I decided to take my writing seriously, I had 9 active story ideas. I wanted to finish a few of those ideas before I made any new WIPs. But this strategy has backfired. Being stuck in "edit" mode for the past 3+ years has made me forget how to create and it shows! 

Therefore, what I believe I need is to write a NEW story - one that I don't have to worry about being "good". This automatically eliminates anything related to the Epics of Verden, and the Fair Winds duology. 

I could bring back one of the story ideas I archived earlier this year, but that feels too much like editing. In fact, I deleted the Wattpad draft of Hidden Seeds, and I will permanently archive that story. It was a great training wheels story, but the premise has not aged well. 

So what is left? 

My lovable zany troupe of amateur actors that I haven't touched since 2020. 

This past weekend, I took a peek at my old Wattpad story, Shattered Chandelier. In spite of it's little problems, the story gave me a lot of comfort and confidence in my own writing. 

But rather than editing Shattered Chandelier, I think I'm going to continue the series. I had talked about doing three sequels - retellings of the musicals The Pirates of Penzance, Singing in the Rain or 42nd Street. I had said that I would do the Pirates retelling next after Shattered Chandelier in 2020, but I'm not holding myself to that promise. I had only said that was the likely one because I had drafted a plot outline for it in 2020....which probably should be scrapped. Or reworked, at least. 

All of this to say....keep an eye out for an introduction post sometime in December :). 

Scribbling with love, 

Catherine