Petra und Blitzen!

I had so much fun with this project! A Dog Called Blitzen was my first novel written in real time, meaning that it was a calendar novel with an episode released each day in July 2023 on my patreon page. Now, I tried to write in advance, but it just didn’t work, and I’m rather pleased it didn’t. I was almost a day ahead of myself, until I wasn’t. And then, with a lovely visit from M&D, I ended up writing after midnight, editing, polishing, and publishing by about 3 a.m. before getting up around 8 a.m. to be ready for breakfast. Luckily, my parents are very relaxed in the morning, and breakfast was often an hour or so later. 😉

But, what was really fun, was the feedback from patrons. Actually, let’s be honest, Dave gave the feedback, and in the beginning I was writing for him and me! 🙂 And, just to be mean, every time he said something like “oh no, another cliffhanger, I can’t wait until tomorrow”… What did I do? I wrote another cliffhanger!

Like I said, really mean.

But so much fun!

And then, trying to end the damn thing! That was problematic. It was supposed to be all tied up on day 31. But I just needed a day more. Enter the “epilogue” and it all worked out wonderfully.

So what’s it all about? Well, for much of the month, I didn’t really know. I wrote this novel completely in the dark, with no plan, and just a handful of names to keep me going. It got a little complicated, and I loved that, and I just didn’t know how Petra was going to resolve the whole thing.

Well, she didn’t, actually. It takes a team, and when writing Blitzen, I really felt I was writing with a team.

So, thank you, Dave! This one’s for you!

Chris

And for non-patrons, A Dog Called Blitzen is now available in eBook and paperback!

I was thinking it would remain “exclusive”.

Dave thought otherwise! 😉