Last night I posted to my online critique group a draft of my sequel to An Ordinary Drowning, titled (for now) Grounding Magic. I've now rewritten my original novel Grounded (approximately 180,000 words) into two completely different standalone novels. I estimate that I've generated three quarters of a million words on my literary retelling of The Little Mermaid and its imagined happily ever after.

I plan to begin the next novel, titled Weebles Wobble, in the next few days. I've outlined this novel and written a hundred pages, but of course I've learned a lot in writing Grounding Magic so I think that the outline will change so much as to be invalid. I wish that I'd quit reinventing the wheel!