Loneliness Update

For anyone who may not know, I've been outlining and preliminarily writing my first (hopefully) epic novel with the working title of Loneliness (which has already changed three times and I'm certain will change several more times along the way).

I've decided to occasionally include samples and updates of my progress here.
Loneliness falls most in line with the genre of medieval fantasy, and will not include any mention of dwarfs, trolls, or an eminent blackness looming on the horizon.

A tag line of the story so far could be encapsulated as: the life-altering journey of young Wren Asher as she struggles to find meaning after being betrayed by her misguided brother and orphaned by the king's henchmen.

As it stands now I've got approximately three double edited chapters completed with another three chapters rough drafted or single edited. I've also nearly finished my detailed outline of chapters 1-20.

I can also divulge to you that I'm currently struggling with two separate issues:

1. A large-scale castle siege which takes place from four different yet simultaneous perspectives
2. Finding the foundation of a compelling tertiary plot-line/backdrop. I've got a general grasp on where I'm going with this, but I'm still looking for the thread that will connect it to the first two major plot-lines.

Next update I'll include a sample paragraph from the opening chapter.

-JS