Each week I send out the ward announcements, and for the past two years or so, I’ve included a “Storytime” segment with, well, stories. :) They’re first drafts, completely off the cuff (usually written in the half-hour before I send out the announcements), but they’re fun to do. For a while I was working on the Francis stories, but lately I’ve been serializing a story called “The Widow and the Wizard”. It grew out of something I wrote for the meeting minutes in one of the committees I’m on at work (in trying to get out of my job as scribe :P), and I liked it enough that I’ve kept working on it.

Today I sent out the fifth installment, and it’s funny to see how the story’s grown — originally it was just going to be three segments, short and sweet. But then at the end of the third part I realized there was no way I could finish the story that quickly, and with this bit I’ve just written, I’m realizing that the boy still has to figure out how to save the older wizard and figure out what’s happened to everyone in the city. And I have no idea what’s next. Sometimes it’s a little nerve-wracking, not knowing what’s coming (or how long it’ll take to get there), but most of the time it’s deliciously fun. At this point all I know is that they’re going underground. I guess I’ll have to wait till next week see what happens next… :P