Just when you think you’ve got everything all worked out, planned out, someone just has to come along and throw a big ole kink into things. So it becomes necessary to reevaluate everything. It’s rough, tough, and throws you into a tailspin, but what choice do you really have? It’s adapt or go crazy–and people say that I’m already crazy enough. So, I adapt. I have no idea how at this point in time, but I’m sure that I’ll eventually think of something.
Writing. When writing is your life, your drive and need, it hurts tremendously to have someone come in and screw with things. What is the child of your imagination is suddenly caught up in a vortex that seems to have no end. It’s frustrating, infuriating, and sickening, but what can you do? I probably have peeps scratching their heads in wonder over this little semi-rant, but it makes sense to me and is making me feel better–and that’s the whole point, really–isn’t it? Most likely, I’ll never tell what spawned this post. That’s just how I am. By drawing attention to the problem, one empowers it, and I refuse to give it that power, so obscure is shall remain.
Back to writing. So, what are my writing goals for the remainder of the year? A year that has gone by entirely too quickly. Edits. Edits are top priority right now. Edits must get done so I can get a release date. So that is top priority, though I’m in wait mode at the moment on them as I decide how to work on some minor rewrites and await input from my editor on something I asked her about.
Then it’s off to a new book. Which one? That’s my problem. Right now, I simply don’t know because what I was going to work on, I can’t. Well, I can, but I am opting not to at this point in time for various reasons that I won’t go into. I want to write a paranormal next since the majority of my year has been taken up by the Hunters for Hire series. So, maybe my mutant story, or a feline shifter, or I have no clue at this point. I’ll think of something by the time I’m ready to write on it. After that? My next Hunters for Hire book about Bocdiah Noth, a bounty hunter, which I’ve called A Hero’s Savior. It’s started, the man is rather demanding, but he does have to wait his turn. I also have Ulric Vonner’s story started, but I forced him to be quiet for now since he has to wait a while before he can get a book.
So, my writing plans remain the same, in theory, just with different titles plugged in. Scifi, paranormal, scifi, paranormal, scifi, paranormal, etc. etc. etc. It’s the plan at least, but we all know how well my planning goes. I guess I’ll write on whatever talks the loudest, with exceptions (Vonner, you have to wait no matter how loud you get!). There is that romantic suspense I have started with light paranormal elements threaded in. Maybe that’s what I need to work on next because I get to kill people in that book–and what better way to work off some frustrations? *grin* I find monsters and very bad people in books very therapeutic.
Can’t beat a therapy where you get to put your frustrations down on paper, turn it into a usable scene in a book, and get paid for it. *devilish grin* It’s also a way for me to incorporate the monsters I loved from childhood into the things I write. The Drigon’s Fall is a prime example of this. That one scene–you know, the one that got me the “gore” warning for the book–you didn’t think I just pulled that out of thin air did you? I put an ex-boyfriend’s face on the dude that got ripped to shreds and had a field day doing it. Hey, at least it made me feel better and that was all that mattered at the time. Don’t get mad, get even in a book! lol And my “victim” list recently grew by several names. hehehe
Okay, I’m suddenly feeling better. The future is looking brighter already. I guess writing this post helped me to click it all into place. It might not be the greatest plan, but at least it’s a start.
Heather
