Sunday, November 20, Gratitude. Thanksgiving is coming. People are coming to my house to celebrate. I enjoy the planning that goes into the feast. But how am I professionally thankful?
What am I most thankful for as a writer? I could say readers. I could say getting to do what I love. Those are great answers and certainly sources of gratitude. What would I put at the top of the list though? I am most thankful for the many kinds of ideas. There are of course good ideas, the ones that push a story forward. And there are bad ideas. I once had a character filling out a long survey, which made for very dry reading.
They make me thankful for shared ideas. For fiction. I have serious doubts about ideas for blog posts. I mean, come on. Did it work? Thursday, October 13, What's Next? I always want to be working toward some goal, usually several. Sometimes my favorite goal is having good goals. I was thinking about what comes after my Coffee and Donuts series long before I finished that series.
I have a rough draft of the next book. My children one of them in particular have been asking me for some time to please, please, please write something that is not a love story. They are a pair of adventures with no love interests in sight. This is a temporary reprieve for the kids. I have time to revise that plan. This sounded easy. Just change the font size, right?
I only predicted a couple of days for the project. But changing the font size changes the page count, which increases the spine, which requires a larger gutter and a new cover file. I also need to register new ISBNs. Every time I tweak something in one book, I have to tweak the other three to match. Yeah, I have to. Sunday, September 18, Connecting the Dots again.
