Sometimes my brain is so flooded with random stories that I think have some serious potential so I start writing them only to discover that I'm about 100 pages short of a full length novel and not really sure where to go from here.
That is how I feel right now about one of my WIPs so I've just left it be. I printed it off, hole-punched it and placed each page neatly in a black binder and let it sit there on my desk, just waiting for me to feel inspired to finish it.
Does this happen to any of you writers out there?
I really love these characters I've written so I don't want to forget them but I don't know how to tell their story either. It's a frustrating place to be.
Well, yesterday while chatting with Komal about my real-life love story (seriously folks, for those of you who think that "insta-love" doesn't really exist, let's chat. I'll tell you the story of how I met my husband), the wheels started turning in my head and suddenly a new idea started brewing.
I started outlining chapters and brainstorming plot twists and imagining conversations.
Little by little these new characters started to emerge....
I remembered a blog by one of my favorites writers, Amanda Hocking, where she talked about how she had an idea for a series but it wasn't working. However, she liked certain parts of it so she used those parts in a different series. I don't know why that memory chose to resurface yesterday but it did and I was like DUH--I can do that too!
So that's what I'm doing. Taking bits from stories that I've written that I love and piecing them together into something new that I hope other people will enjoy reading.
It's in the works people.
And in the meantime, In the Shadows (Lark #2) releases in two weeks--OCT 1st!
Yes, I just shamelessly plugged my own book. I only feel slightly guilty about doing that. :)
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