Couldn't get inspired enough to work out a plan of attack for the revision, nor even to reread that novel. And we're 3 days away!
Chatting with a couple of people this week (writer and non-writer), and I was inspired to write a new book in my paranormal bromance universe. These are characters that I love and write short stories for all the time, but unfortunately the novel I wrote for them (2012 NaNo) has a major problem in the form of the love interest, on whom the plot revolves around, and I've never been able to fix her.
The other problem the original had was that there was this giant backstory I refused to lose that took up three chapters at the beginning of the story. It introduced the main characters' relationship with each other, which I felt was vital. But I could easily cannibalize it for this story, where the consequences of that backstory are directly responsible for the Big Bad. I can see using it in book 2 (if I ever whip book 1 into shape) rather than book 1 as a "Now that you know these characters, see how they met" sort of thing, and the backstory only alluded to in the original.
The hard part will be making this book standalone in case it's significantly better and I never fix book 1. There are important things about the nature of the main characters' relationship and their knowledge of ghosts that I can't imagine avoiding in a full novel.
Anyway, I might not have cared to reread last year's novel, but I'm all about reading a ghost story in the next 3 days
Too bad I didn't spend this month putting together a soundtrack with all my Halloween songs (It's okay, I have an entire supplemental Paranormal Bromance soundtrack to pull from. Finding songs for these guys was never a problem).
Only about 32 hours to go (for me, at least), and I'm only just now pondering what to write. Because I like punishing myself. But also because the only way to get through the other end of this depression and writing is with brute force. *polite cough*
