But a large portion of my brain is devoting itself to ideas
and scenes for another novel I was working on, the tale of a feral burlesque
dancer and a psychometric youth counselor.
Words are flowing out of my brain as if someone else is dictating them
to me, sometimes literally faster than I can type them out.
And yet, when I turn my attention to my as-yet untitled rival, I hear the siren song of the Sidhe calling to me, reminding me of all the fun I had writing the first novel and how much fun remains to be had with the second (and eventually, third).
Add in an unusually busy schedule due to birthday season and
preparing for Dave’s upcoming cancer treatment and the two halves of my
creative brain have been battling royally for the much diminished laptop
time. Sadly, I am one of these people
who truly doesn’t function well without sleep, so I can’t stay up late to try
and get these stories out of my head.
On the one hand, it’s nice to have not one but two stories
jostling for completion. I think every
writer fears eventually running out of ideas, so it’s good to know my brain is
still fertile. But on the other hand, I
know I don’t write well when I’m too distracted. Immersing myself in a single world helps me
to keep that world consistent, which is important when you’re making up a big
portion of it.
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to work with these
competing urges but so far, it’s not clear what to try. I was focusing on the Sidhe novel and just
trying to get down detailed notes for the other, so that I’d have them to spark
new interest when I had more time. It
hasn’t been completely successful.
I think I need to find a way to increase my writing time or
output. Get both these stories out as
quickly as possible because more ideas are bubbling in my brain.
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