Relaying information is not the same thing as relaying emotion. One of the first lessons I learned about communicating was from the movie “STRATEGIC COMMAND” with James Stewart. Jimmy is in an airplane crash in Greenland while his wife June Allison is having a babe. He is rescued and receives a telegram telling him that the baby has arrived and June wanted to know what to name it. Jimmy replies, “I can’t think of anything. But hope everything is fine.” June receives it as “I can’t think of anything but Hope. Everything is fine.” So of course she names the baby Hope, luckily it was a girl. Putting that period in a different spot changes the meaning and therefore the results. I have been trained for 30+ years to relay (communicate) information. To eliminate ambiguity and to be precise in what I say. I have been taught to remove emotion and judgmental words from my correspondence. As a result it is hard for me to not over describe. To assume the reader will get what I mean. Because of this, It gets boring. I am aware of it and working on it.

Finished writing "WORTH SAVING" 68K word young adult dystopian novel. Five years after a plague has swept away most of mankind. 18 year old Kris Robertson leaves his mountain top farm and travels to the deserted city to find others. He ends up establishing a safe haven for a few remaining survivors. They build a world on the roof tops away from the wild animals and the raiders wanting to enslave them. Or as my wife Shelley likes to say. Your typical two worlds colliding and all hell breaking lose. I have given it to a couple of people as beta readers and will edit it again when I get their comments back.