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Well, I've been tossing and turning over what path to take with my writing for a while now.
There's the saga that is 1.5 books in, though I want to rewrite book 1 and I still need to finish book 2, which will probably require some rewriting (but not all). So there's that.
Then there's the psychological thriller that is first person (the saga is gods-eye-view) which I'm even less sure about, mostly because I don't think there's a market for it, and I'd prefer to spend my time on something I think has actual market value.
So there were those 2 things, and I felt a little lost.
Cue today. I wrote 1000 words of what I think is probably the best writing I've ever done. It's edgier, doesn't apologise for anything, and I think it could sell (there's already a reasonable audience for it as opposed to trying something that I haven't really seen around much or at all).
So now I'm thinking I should focus my efforts on this new book. I haven't got many plans for it past the basic premise, but you know what? I think that's why it's my best writing so far.
With all the other works I've done, I had a rough idea and drew up an outline and decided ahead of time how many words would go into each chapter and how many chapters there would be and so many other forward planning things. I don't think that option is for me.
When I used to write for a gaming website (alas, now gone, and my copies went when my computer died a year and a half ago) I knew what needed to be written about, but I made no plans. I was free to go at whatever pace I wanted, to put in extra bits, to do it as I saw fit in the moment - and I've realised just before while rereading a book which I think is tops, your audience will only ever read it in the moment. They don't care what plans you had - it's all about the moment, and being entertaining and memorable.
And that's what I think this new work could be. No plans, just write the damn thing.
Now, I've only done 1000 words or so, so I'm currently having an internal debate over whether or not to make it first person (it's gods-eye at the moment, and I'm leaning towards keeping it that way for a number of reasons).
Anyway, there was no real question here about the work, but rather, "Has anyone else gone through a similar thing, and did you ever go back to your past works, and to what effect?"
Cliff
There's the saga that is 1.5 books in, though I want to rewrite book 1 and I still need to finish book 2, which will probably require some rewriting (but not all). So there's that.
Then there's the psychological thriller that is first person (the saga is gods-eye-view) which I'm even less sure about, mostly because I don't think there's a market for it, and I'd prefer to spend my time on something I think has actual market value.
So there were those 2 things, and I felt a little lost.
Cue today. I wrote 1000 words of what I think is probably the best writing I've ever done. It's edgier, doesn't apologise for anything, and I think it could sell (there's already a reasonable audience for it as opposed to trying something that I haven't really seen around much or at all).
So now I'm thinking I should focus my efforts on this new book. I haven't got many plans for it past the basic premise, but you know what? I think that's why it's my best writing so far.
With all the other works I've done, I had a rough idea and drew up an outline and decided ahead of time how many words would go into each chapter and how many chapters there would be and so many other forward planning things. I don't think that option is for me.
When I used to write for a gaming website (alas, now gone, and my copies went when my computer died a year and a half ago) I knew what needed to be written about, but I made no plans. I was free to go at whatever pace I wanted, to put in extra bits, to do it as I saw fit in the moment - and I've realised just before while rereading a book which I think is tops, your audience will only ever read it in the moment. They don't care what plans you had - it's all about the moment, and being entertaining and memorable.
And that's what I think this new work could be. No plans, just write the damn thing.
Now, I've only done 1000 words or so, so I'm currently having an internal debate over whether or not to make it first person (it's gods-eye at the moment, and I'm leaning towards keeping it that way for a number of reasons).
Anyway, there was no real question here about the work, but rather, "Has anyone else gone through a similar thing, and did you ever go back to your past works, and to what effect?"
Cliff
