Musings On The 1st Person Voice In Stories...
Yesterday, against my better judgement, I started writing a second book. Now I'm still working on "The Ship" which is the sequel to my first novel "The Bridge". But I was having troubles with "The Ship". I was making progress, but it was so slow I was going crazy at times. I would write over a 1000 words in one day and then dump about half of them because they weren't moving the plot along or really helping develop the characters as much. I kept what did seem to be working and built on that the next day. Sometimes this is one way of dealing with Writer's Block for me. Then yesterday, something else happened. An idea for a different book that is part of my Para-Earth series started gelling like no one's business. It had sat on the back-burner for so long now it was boiling over. Scenes and characters started coming to life to such an extent I had only one of three options: A) Start writing the book B) Leave it alone and hope I ...