I was asked yesterday what I’m working on, in the writing department.
Um. Too much? I’m sitting here this morning writing up the novel my First Reader and I plotted on the car ride yesterday – 7 hours of driving gives us loads of time to talk, which is lovely, but – and wondering to myself why it is so much easier to start a new project than it is to finish one I’ve already been writing.
So what needs to be finished? Well, I’ve been plugging away at The East Witch for a while, because it’s the closest to being ‘done’ and I have the urge to write it. But I have also been floundering around with Tanager’s Flight, because it needs to be written. And I have bits of it on both paper and dictation now, just need to find the time to sit down and splice it all into one cohesive document. So maybe 10% of the novel? That’s not a lot, I know.
And then there is Bone Sigh, the new Amaya Lombard novel that needs to be written. Or perhaps I could come back to Ten Pigeons, which is a straight murder mystery, and complete that…
It was talking about Ten Pigeons in the car that got the First Reader and I talking about mysteries and cozies and now I have a farmwife who will be solving crimes in my head. Which is what I was writing today. Because… because.
But now I’m going back to writing the fiction, because that’s fun. Maybe later today I’ll go look at orchids. I have a lifelong unrequited passion for them, after all.
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2 responses to “Work in Progress”
I too find it difficult to quash new ideas to do instead the sometimes tedious job of writing recalcitrant chapters in my series. Some chapters are fun to write and write them selves. Others, vital to the story, are work. When writing from the POV of a protagonist, no problem. But Bad Guys are no fun. I hate thinking like them, even though that is required to make them ring true.
I like the dragon on the mushroom, very Alice In Wonderland