Howdy All,

AG thought her life couldn’t get more turned upside down.  Well, she was wrong.  The ceiling opened up and an angel fell at her feet.  Mordecai, the angel who had saved her life only nights before was now helpless at her feet.  She wasn’t sure what she was supposed to do, but she knew she couldn’t let him die.  Once more her life was turned over and everything she thought she’d begun to understand was changed.  She saved the angel, saved his life and in return his heart became hers.  She didn’t know that, or maybe she pretended she didn’t.  But it was hers and would forever be.

“…AG was surprised at how calm she was.  She was wrist deep in feathers and blood, still sporting just a thin cotton bra and her jeans while helping make an angel – A FREAKING ANGEL! – comfortable on a bed in one of the rectories rooms and she hadn’t freaked out.  It had to be shock, she thought.  I’M IN SHOCK AND REALITY HASN’T SUNK IN.  God, she hoped it never would. …” Chapter Nine, Angel’s Gate by L Becker

Well, Chapter Nine is in the bag and I’m happy to say I’ve finally put these two face to face.  This is where the story has been heading.  I have to admit I’m pretty happy with the results and am ready to dig into Chapter Ten!  Until next time,

L

Hi All,

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated, but I assure you I’ve been writing!  I’ve completed Chapter Eight and am well into Chapter Nine, so thought it was time to drop a new post.  In this Chapter AG was introduced to the Archangel Elijah, the angel in charge of the Guardians on earth.

“…Father O’Hare caught the direction of her gaze, and still holding her hand in his, turned so that they both faced the other man.  ‘AG, this is Elijah, he is an -‘

‘An angel?’  It was a guess, but she suspected that he was the Elijah she had heard the other angels tell Gideon wanted to meet her. 

‘Uh, yes.  He is.’  Patrick said.  ‘How did you…?’

‘A guess?  To tell you the truth I’m starting to suspect everyone is.’  She laughed, but it wasn’t really humor.  It was the nervous kind of laughter that she used to mask how she was feeling.  The angel just looked at her and she wasn’t sure what to do.  Did she offer to shake hands or what?  What was proper angel etiquette?…” Chapter Eight, Angel’s Gate

At first she was a little nervous around him, scared what she was going to learn, not sure what the angels wanted from her.  But as they spoke she began to feel strangely peaceful and complacent.  It was then she realized that he was using his angelic powers to make her complacent, to manipulate her.  AG, being AG, shut that down pretty quick.  She is beginning to suspect that they plan for her to remain forever in Shelter Cove like her mother did, that she will be unable to escape and have a life that she wants, a life of choice.  It appears these angels will do what they can to have her choose their side, no matter what her human freewill wants, or what her bloodline might push her towards.

Well, that’s it for now, I’ll post soon as Chapter Nine is done and I’m on to Chapter ten, until next time!

L

Hello All,

I’ve finally knocked out Chapter Seven and I’m very pleased with the results.  AG is still coming to terms with everything that has changed in her life, getting to know her new Guardian Angel Gideon.  In the midst of the chaos she has her first encounter with the other Guardians and they are NOT what she was expecting.  She imagined all angels were light and kind like Gideon, she was wrong.  It seems angels could be more human than she thought.  She also learns that she is something else, something more than just the Key, something the angels themselves fear.

“AG lay very still on the couch.  Angels, more angels were in her house. She had the overwhelming urge to look and see if they had wings.  She didn’t move.

“And now this one.” The female, Haniel spat out.  “This abomination.”

“Don’t.”  Gideon’s voice was low, dark, sending chills running over AG where she lay.  “She is under my protection and she is the Claustrum.”

“Don’t make her out to be more than she is, Gideon, she just the bastard of a Shade and a human bitch.” Haniel sneered…..” Chapter Seven,  Angel’s Gate by L Becker.

She has a lot to absorb and she doesn’t even know where to begin.

On to Chapter Eight and the flow is going better, changing my perspective on this rewrite has really helped the word count and just the overall enjoyment of the book.  I’m excited to reconnect with Mordecai beyond the Gate and get another glimpse into Heaven.

Well, until next time,

L

Hello All,

A typical second draft is all about the SSSTT -sight, sounds, smells, taste and touch- you know fleshing out the story.  This however has turned into complete freaking rewrite.  I never expected or anticipated this much of a restructuring of the book.  Angel’s Gate, in its first draft was a good, solid story, needed some skin and meat on the bones, but I never thought I would change or expand SO much.

I think part of the reason it’s been so much more expansive is because when I originally started to write the original draft of Angel’s Gate I was a much younger woman.  Not just in years but in experiences in life and now when I picked the story back up and decided to continue it into the second book – which I have completed – and a third – which I’ve started –  I now have 5 years of experience that I didn’t before.  And mostly it’s not the years, but the mileage, as they say, the extent and vividness of those experiences.  I went through certain experiences that changed me.  I’ve also changed in my perspective of who I am as a woman and how a woman should behave and react, so my heroine has completely changed who she is because of that.  And my hero has changed who he is and the adventure itself has changed since my expression of life and how I view things has also changed.

So instead of just being a bump up of new,  or just fleshing out of the story, it’s become a complete rewrite, to tell a whole new story.  I’ve basically just taken the kernel of the idea I was trying to express, but as a younger person I didn’t have the skill to do justice to it.  So now, I have some more skill and hopefully will be able to capture more of what I wanted to express, because I’ve lived more and experienced more.

I didn’t realize how much I had changed as a person and as a woman until I started doing the rewrite on the second draft of Angel’s Gate and I am really happy with the changes in myself that I see and the changes in the story and the direction that is taking.

True, it’s taking much longer to finish, I’m way off the deadline I had set for myself, but I believe the results will be so much more worth it.

Well, until the next time I sit behind this keyboard….

L

Hello everyone,

2018 is here and I am looking forward to it.  This is the first time I’ve headed into the New Year without any dread, or foreboding hanging over me.  It’s an amazing feeling.  It’s been a long road to get to this point where I can face life fully and I can’t wait to see what this year has in store for me.

I had planned to finish the rewrite on “Angel’s Gate” by the end of 2017, but it has kind of taken on a life of its own and is NOT cooperating.  I love everything I’ve written, but it’s far from done.  Still, I’d rather have the story that it should be than try to finish quick just to meet a deadline I set for myself.

So, 2018 is when I’ll finish the rewrite and by 2019 the book will be ready for all of you to read.

Welcome to 2018 and I hope it’s as amazing as you all deserve!

L