2015, I retired and delved more full time into fiction-writing, learning its current craft and techniques. 2018, Completed 900 page off-world para-venture novel Anthar, Phaeno and the Otherworld; Book IV of my planned O-World series. 2019, Wrote Book III of my O-World series, The Emissary and The Otherworld for the year’s NANOWRIMO challenge; a 54,000-word novella that I have since expanded and refined upon. 2020’s NANOWRIMO. Working backwards in my O-World series, wrote Part 1 for Book I, The Glass Canyon and the Otherworld; 62,000-words. This is the Origin Story for O-World.. 2021’s NANOWRIMO, wrote The Glass Canyon Part 2, for Book I; 50,129 words. 2022—2023: Currently writing; Part 3 for Book I and storyboarding prep for Book II, The Mentor and the Otherworld. Also story-board outlined and started writing. The Pisces; a new project about a free-diving sportsman. |
2024—2025: Completed and re-named ‘The Pisces’ as Poseidon LLC. Length, 425 pages. Will try to get this one published. Cleaning up/ editing Book IV ‘O-World’ series for publication.
Since retirement from health care, I have also written flash fictions, short stories, a few poems, and a small collection of haiku; Haiku For the City, as well as philosophic and non-fiction opinion pieces exploring climate change, nature, and a particularly important subject to me, The Solar Cycles of the Sun: Implications for The Future. I have also written several instructional pieces: Deconstructing the Novel, Use of Sub-Plots, Notes on Themes in Relation to Story Arc, Use of Loglines for Fiction, Beginning the Story, and Subtle Power vs. Super-Heroes in Character-Driven vs. Plot-Driven Storytelling.
For heavy-hitting novel writing I use storyboarding and three-ring binders for detailed outlining and research—a process that works well for me. Hope to be published one day.
Member of Inland Empire California Writers Club. (reduced the number Clubs I participate in to devote more time to novel writing . . . and getting published)
Victoria’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/katherine.begley.16.