I really, reeeeaaallllly love brainstorming.

There’s something about creating a new group of people, conflict, mystery and romance that gets me so excited.  It makes me giddy and alive.

Today, I worked on the first idea I had for a psychological thriller.  I changed some of it–made it a paranormal (at least for now although it’s not strong) and changed who my villain was.  The original way was simply NOT working.  I tried twice.  This way is better.

I went back and forth between making the heroine a 19 year old, the summer after her freshman year of college or a 17 year old, the summer before senior year.  I ended up choosing the hs student.  There’s more of a vulnerability about someone who isn’t legal yet, still considered a kid, rather than a young adult.  At least in my eyes.

I finished  my character list, and tomorrow I’ll be working on character bios.  I have to say that is my most dreaded part.  I just hate it, but it’s so necessary. lol  Maybe I’ll look for pics too to keep me motivated.

and I hate that. I had such a strong devotion to blogging every day, but adding Jadyn to the mix has definitely taken that plan off course. I want to start working on something dark, as soon as Jadyn’s WIP is finished (hopefully the end of Sept.). I would love to reexamine and get started on the first thriller I created, but the plot is so confusing. I can’t seem to make it work, so I’ve been putting it to the side. I’ve gone back to it twice now but still no luck. Maybe I can give it a whirl a third time.

Of course, Jadyn has been writing like a fool–I am so into that story now, I’m amazed.

Now that I’ve split my writing, and Jadyn is now handling the lighter stuff, she is responsible for my current WIP.  Therefore, I have no writing to discuss on here.  Add that to the boringness of this blog and Whoo hoo!

It does allow me to focus on the darker ideas when I’m here though.

I was on the phone the other night with my aunt, and we talked about a past life reading I received last year.  I discovered when I was born and died (years only) in my latest past life.  My aunt is very curious about who I was, since “I” died only a year after she was born.  It led to an interesting conversation, which produced a very cool idea for a book.

So, do I work on this one after they current WIP, or do I go back to the supernatural thriller about the boogeyman?  LOL, I sometimes dislike having sooo many ideas, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.

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.

I feel kinda guilty simply reporting Yay, another day of five pages written, every single post.  There has to be some unpubbed’s blog more interesting that this, right?  But…it’s all I have at the moment. :)  I can’t  spend time reading and roaming the web for juicy tidbits, or I can’t get done the writing and plotting and mothering and housecleaning and sleeping…you get the drift.

So, I got my scene written and not only did it go wonderfully, but it’s cute and a bit funny.  What more could I ask for?  The same for yesterday’s goal.  All done and I enjoyed it.  I almost didn’t work this morning.  I told myself to stick with the brainstorming for the day, because I had thought of a couple of plot points while falling to sleep last night that I did not write down.  But I opened my WriteWayPro program (highly recommend it) and just started writing the scene.  Before I knew it, it was completed and I could move on to the brainstorming.

Which brings me to….Smoke and Mirrors.  I’m currently writing the book journeys of each of about seven characters.  Not all of what I write will be shown, but it allows me to see the path they each take and how some events catalyst others.  After this, I will create a timeline, braiding the journeys together to create “one”.  After that, I will start outlining which scenes to use in great detail.  This time around, I want to outline/write the first draft, much how First Draft in 30 Days suggests, but not her way. :)  My way!  I’m not sure how it will go, but it’s my journey too.

Ok, off to work on that.  More boring writing progress tomorrow.

Whoo hoo!

Well there is editing and all that, but Act One is now completely written. Yay!  I’m so happy.

Tomorrow I will start Act Two and begin that looooong journey.  If I don’t slack off anymore (ok, did you hear that cackling?) I can have this book done by the end of August, as planned.  *crosses fingers*  Just in time (or slightly after) learning whether or not my entry finaled in the Stiletto contest.

Now, well after I make spaghetti and meatballs, I can continue with my brainstorming for Shadows and Mirrors.  I’d really like to start outlining that tomorrow, so I can have that done by the end of September.

Pages that is.  It’s not my usual five but at least I got them out.  I’m trying to just push through those moments when I’d rather pluck out my eyeballs than write.  I figure if I at least get something down then it’s an accomplishment.  So today was a pluck my eyeball out day.

Now that I’m done I can’t help but think, “that wasn’t so bad”. LOL Yeah, I’m strange that way.

So, the new “horror” idea…  I can’t officially call it horror, because I seriously don’t know if I can pull off fear.  I’m writing about a subject that if I placed myself deeply in this character’s head could really sadden, hurt and scare me, but at the same time I don’t know if I can get those emotions on paper.

I think I focus so much on the external…or maybe I simply don’t spend enough time in them.  Maybe I stay one step outside, in the distance.  Maybe I write what he/she should be thinking, feeling, tasting, etc. and don’t actually feel what they feel.  Hmm…  Definitely something to ponder.