I sat myself down this weekend and had a long conversation about what I'm doing and what I'm going to do. As a result, I did not get my edit notes done yesterday. On the other hand, I did get 2259 words laid down on a new book. Okay, not a new new book, but I wasn't that far along on the manuscript, so those words about doubled its length.
Part of the impetus for picking this particular book was reader input. As in someone I don't know contacted me filled with excitement about my books and she had asked for more of three different series. Since I can't write four different books at once (those three plus the sequel to SSS), although lord knows I wish I could, I picked the first one she mentioned.
I also decided I need to be more business-like as a writer. As in, I need to stop with the 'only writing when the mood strikes me' crap. Like some precious flower who can only grow when the circumstances are right. I need to be a dandelion and grow wherever and whenever.
The world is going to hell and I can't control any of it. But I can control this.
So, to that end, I will be working more. Edit and do business stuff during the day, write at night. So basically, back to the way I used to work.
As for the book I went back to working on, it's SCIU #4, tentatively called Justice Served. If you're not familiar with the format of SCIU, these books don't hide who the villain is. The story is in the actions of the villain and the heroes. Who's going to die, how are they going to be stopped, who's going to stop them. The tug and pull between the characters. And the justice at the end. There's always justice at the end.
Anyway, I will finish SSS and get it published by the end of the month. I will also write subsequent books, but later. Right now, if my gumption holds up and I keep whipping myself to work, the plan is to complete this book and get it out, then another Dennis Haggarty and another Duke Noble. Can I do all that this year? :shrug: If I fail, I hope it's not due to lack of trying. Although, I'd rather it was due to that then the world collapsing. All I know is I'm gonna go out fighting one way or the other.
And now, I'll leave you with this quote: "If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow." - Louis L'Amour
I'm going to keep the water flowing. Open the tap and let it gush on out.
Oh, a new thriller! Yay! Of course, I enjoy all of your books. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen there's nothing else we can do about the craziness in the world, writing helps. And it helps readers, too. We need relief from the madness.
I try to work on my nonfiction every day. Don't always get much done, but I try. My fiction? Let's not talk about that.
I 💖 Louis L'Amour. Just sayin'. And yeah. I hear you and get you and I need to do my own internal come-to-Jesus intervention. Iffy needs to either pick up the ball and run or get the heck outta the way. Hell, foreget Iffy. I need to get the hell outta my own way. I'm not organized. I write in weird fits and starts but I need to make sure those fits and starts happen every day because they haven't. Not for way too long a time.
ReplyDeleteSo, let's rock the boat and get 'er done, yeah? And happy Monday after time change. 😴