Hi everyone,
Writers spin stories and that’s their art. A creative mind is always bubbling with ideas like a witch’s cauldron, with day to day inspiration adding up like various ingredients and coming up with magical concoction which are the plots or plot twists.
It is not surprising then that often such a mind is pulled in two or more directions.
I write romance and sometimes I find angsty situations and characters neing generated by random unconnected things that happen around me. Do you find yourself nodding sympathetically? Then you know how it feels when you start with characters A and B and are involved in working out their conflict and suddenly characters X and Y appear and start talking in your head ao you have to listen to them and then write their story too.
Recently I was working on Darker Than Desire, my upcoming book and I read a story call and immediately rwo new characters appeared. I found them so exciting that I began to work out their story kinks and forgot about Khaled and Rashida, whose story I was relating. But then I would open the wip file and again become engrossed in it. On the top of that, a very intriguing character Haaziq, appeared in Darker Than Desire and told me in no uncertain terms that he too expected a novel all of his own.
Mix up all that and you have one confused author. Which story should I finish first?
The most tempting to write is – any guesses? – the newest one. As humans our mind is attracted to novelty and hence we wanted to test new things.
But writing the newest one would also be most time consuming. No matter if it looks like this novel is going to fly all out and write itself, it simply won’t happen. You’ll have to work on it as much as you have at others.
So if you are very attracted, then devote some time in the day to the new project. But under no conditions should you put your wip on the shelf. The best thing to do is, to finish the story you are closest to finishing.
That’s it. That’s a piece of advice worth repeating. Finish the story you are closest to finishing.
I also have another piece of advice which I borrowed from another writer somewhere on the net. At a time, a busy writer should have three projects in the pipeline: One being planned, one being written and third being published or marketed as the case maybe.
So when more than one story pulls at you, you should wait until one story outruns them all. But if you are far ahead in the current book, then finish it before going to the next one.
Stay tuned for the cover reveal of Darker Than Desire. It’s an exciting Sheikh romance, set in an Arabian kingdom called Enzra. Khaled and Rashida find themselves caught up in politics and intrigue, while discovering sizzling attraction and unravelling the mystery of love. It will be released very soon.
Leaving you with a link for my first book, Too Much Into You, just released sensual romance. If you love erotic romance tastefully written, don’t miss this one.
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