Update

Hey, sorry it's been a while...

I have still been working on my portfolio, just not been keeping up to date with the journal, so I thought I should let you know what's going on. As JT is aware, I have mapped out the basic plot for what I plan to happen, but I've been feeling that it's a bit... soggy (for want of a better word) in places, so I've been thinking over the bits that are relevant to the section I'm submitting for my portfolio. It's been helped along by continued research into the period, so I'm developing an idea of the sort of situations I can put Alena in that would be typical of the period.

On another note, I've been considering what I've already written, and I'm thinking about reverting to standard capitalisation. I liked the idea, and it is striking on the page, but it tends to cause a lot of confusion, and I'm not certain that it adds anything to the writing. I'll be talking to JT about it at some point no doubt.

In other news, I've had characters that don't appear until much later in the story running amok in my head and it's annoying me. Callen is important LATER but I can't seem to communicate that she should leave me alone NOW. Any ideas anyone? Not to mention a half-formed Sovenmor shifter bleating (or should I say squawking) about how I'm presenting their House as two dimensional baddies. It's a fair point, but not entirely relevant right now, since they're not Alena's most pressing concern right now, and Alena is the reader's most pressing concern.

For a bunch of fictional characters that exist solely in my head (Callen has some presence on paper, but it's negligible) they sure can be persistently annoying. And noisy too.

Well, that's it for now; I'm off to wrestle a wolf, a rat and a vulture. None of them will play nice...