Sorry I haven't blogged in a while, but I have been deep in the mire of my writing, where my muse has been telling me my words are wonderful one minute and crap the next. Oh well, I've planted down just over 20,000 words in a week. At this rate I'll pretty much have the first draft of Time of the Soul finished by the end of the week...I hope. That way I'll have three books written for the series before Shadows of the Mind is released on the 15th of Feb!

Just where I want to be.

So...the purpose of this post? Well, reading a lot of comments on forums and loops it seems that readers *gasp* like plot with their stories! OMG! Who'd have thunk it?

I don't know about you, but I can't HAVE a book without plot. Plot is the foundation of the story, the skeleton of the work. Without a plot your prose, words you have probably spent hours upon hours planting down, becomes a great big pile of mush. And boring. I've never read 'one-handed' novels (and there are plenty of those about) and I don't intend to. There are plenty of other ways I can get that sort of gratification. For my books, when I sit down and write or read, I need plot and I agree with all of you who have said they need a plot. If there is a story to be told, then tell it. If there isn't...

...well don't write it.