thunderbolt

 Hello old friends. I haven't been here in a long time, but I thought I would make an attempt starting up "Thunderbolt" once again. I took a lot of time off from writing in any form, about four years. A lot transpired: Graduations, breakthroughs in CF treatments, panic attacks and an ample amount of therapy. Oh, and a pandemic. It was during the pandemic that I began writing a new novel. The idea came to me in early 2019 and I began researching for it in the summer of '19. It wasn't until April 2020 that I started in earnest, seeing as I had a lot of time. We all did, didn't we? Since then, I completed and rewrote the prologue and first part, and finished the second part. I'm currently on part three which I anticipate will have four parts and a brief epilogue. My goal is to be done with the first draft by the end of 2024. That seems so far off, but as I've gotten older (I turned 50 in 2019) and the kids have transitioned into young adults, I find that