I worked on Project Midnight last night. The writing itself is terrible and I’m unlikely to keep any of it, but I did gain some clarity.

Mostly, I realized that:

Zoara = Azure
Alyra = Aeryn

I intended for this to be a prequel to a story I started twenty years ago, but I think I’ve come upon the missing pieces of what I was originally trying to create in the first place.

What if this isn’t meant to be a prequel at all? What if Project Midnight has been Rayne all along? Once I started thinking of it that way a lot of plot points I’d been struggling with started to make sense. And I think – I think – I’ve got this now.

It’s been my goal since the start of the year to eventually (one day, maybe) launch a physical newsletter. You know, something that arrives in the mail, as opposed to something delivered to the inbox. Yesterday I purchased themidnightletter.com domain, just to have it. It might start out as a newsletter for Project: Midnight. I haven’t quite decided yet.

Within Project: Midnight (temporary title), the Midnight Letter is part of a bigger plot. I have this in my story bible so far: