For this week anyway!

I hate the parts that are such a struggle I’d rather poke out my eyeballs.

This week, however, and maybe I shouldn’t say this out loud, has been steadily ok.  I wrote one scene and finished another yesterday, then wrote another today.  I’m getting it done semi-early, so I still have the rest of the day to do home/mom stuff and work on the idea for the next book.  So Yay!!!

As for the next book…  This is the third and a half idea I’ve been brewing for a month or so.  The first one is still good, but it’s very typical, overdone.  It originated from a dream I had, so not the most original.  Plotting some of it allowed me to start thinking outside the box though.

Then one night, I got the itch to write a horror.  I won’t label my current work as such until I’m certain I can pull it off, but that idea ended up going the way of psychological thriller anyway.  This one, which I titled Smoke and Mirrors (love that), was going GREAT!  Then while writing my fingers off, I got the idea to change the villain and make it the hero.  But I can’t make my hero the villain, so then I needed to decide if I was writing a suspense with romantic elements or just a suspense.

I’m not opposed to having it labeled as just suspense; it’s mostly what I read, but I don’t know if I’m ready as a writer to make that a part of my “reputation”.  Make sense?  I’m not even published yet.  So instead, I decided to tweak the plot and add another character to either be the hero or to be the villain.  I worked on this for about a week before I finally had to throw in the towel and say “enough is enough”.  One day I may get back to the idea, and hopefully at that point I’ll have a stronger desire as to what I want, but until then I have to move forward.

Which is where I’m at now.  I started the new idea based off the last and with only one scene in my head.  Who are these people?  Where did they come from?  Who is after them?  It took a while to come up with answers, some of which are still hazy, but I’m working on it.  Which I’m going to get back to now.