I was tagged to blog, but since my brain is fried from writing my latest book I decided to combine the tag with this week’s Thursday Thirteen, so it’ll go up tomorrow. 
In the meantime, I’m writing all day every day, as usual. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel and my schedule will be slowing down soon. That will be nice and I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be able to have days where I don’t have to write at all, which hasn’t been the case for over a year now. I’ve written so much that the “E” on my laptop keyboard is almost completely worn away. On my desktop keyboard the “E” is long gone and the plastic of the key has a groove worn into it. A dent. I’m wondering how long I have before there’s an actual hole in it.
Over the weekend and recently on the Wicked chat loop, they’ve been talking about story ideas. Some authors have files full of story ideas. I don’t. Never have. In fact, I only have one story idea aside from the ones I’m contracted to write. It’s in proposal form, but it’s old. Not new. I wrote the proposal last summer! I haven’t had a new story idea since last summer. How sad is that?
Usually I get ideas in the lull when I’m not writing, but since it’s been so long since I’ve had time off, I haven’t had the lull to think up new stuff. Soon though. I need to think of stories for the books I’m still contracted to write.
How are you doing?
Just swinging over from WW…
Yeah, I’m trying to remember when I last had a brand new idea too! I can sometimes come up with ideas for short stories, but finding ideas for, and plotting and developing new full length book projects is very very hard for me.
It’s like I said on the loop, if I have a new idea, odds on it’s either daft, unviable, or I’ve done it before in some shape or form. And I’m v. picky too… Sometimes a vague plot will form, but I dismiss it, because it’s too stupid or too contrived and I can’t imagine any editor ever going for it… and then the next day, I’ll read the blurb for, or a review of some newly published book and find that somebody’s used just the plot that I rejected as too silly and unrealistic!
And my best ideas tend to gather themselves together slowly, over many weeks or months, with little bits gradually slotting into place…
Do you get that, Syl? Anybody else the same?
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WendyPortia
on February 21st, 2007 at 1:11 am