Well, I have mixed news, both good and bad at once: I was sucked into another story of mine despite my best efforts to stay committed to Paying the Piper. I'd been wanting to reread a couple of my works to prepare for what I will work on next this coming NaNoWriMo; however, I knew if I did that, I risked wanting to jump ship.
I resisted the siren call for as long as I could...but this weekend I reread last year's NaNoWriMo project and couldn't put it down. I immediately started writing on it and typed away into the night in a way I haven't been able to do with Piper.
So I will do my best to finish Piper before November, but if things slow, I apologize in advance. In the meantime, enjoy a blurb of what is tentatively titled Enthralled by Emotion:
When a magical artifact is shattered in a fit of rage, its power curses the land of Darroda. Now when people experience high emotions, the emotions take a tangible form: thunderstorms of sorrow, pitch night patches of fear, fiery tornadoes of rage. These emotes, once formed, remain on the land, endangering with an emotional overdose anyone who may encounter them.
A girl named Ren is discovered as the sole survivor in a village razed by an emote. Amazingly, she has the ability to absorb the emotional energy of the weaker emotes she encounters.
However, this gift comes with a cost: she can feel everyone’s emotions and is easily overwhelmed. She will need training if she is ever to face the stronger emotes covering the land, including the biggest emote of all: the rings of rage that started it all.
Not everyone wants her to uncover the secret at the heart of the emotes. The more Ren uncovers, the more the political plots make it clear that there is no true victor no matter what the outcome is.
As she lives the peoples’ emotions that fuel the emotes, her own emotional turmoil threatens to overwhelm her. Will Ren be strong enough to absorb Darroda's strongest emotions?
