Stuck... and a new idea
On the train into work this morning I must have been unusually awake because I was struck by an idea for a novel which makes me feel I must write it. In fact, it's a morph of an idea that has been floating around vaguely in my mind for at least a year.
The problem is that it does not really fit into my writing plans. So I'm going to have to leave it for now, and maybe... well, if I could just write BIRDS faster. You see the vague plan for 2005 is that I have BIRDS to write, and then after that is the next Jennifer Lindsay. And BIRDS is tough because it's a type of novel I've not written before. The plot is not linear for a start, and its themes are subtle, and... well, I don't know. Maybe I've got it wrong with what I am trying to do and the pushing water uphill of it all is too hard for me to pull off.
We'll see.
Nothing ventured.
The problem is that it does not really fit into my writing plans. So I'm going to have to leave it for now, and maybe... well, if I could just write BIRDS faster. You see the vague plan for 2005 is that I have BIRDS to write, and then after that is the next Jennifer Lindsay. And BIRDS is tough because it's a type of novel I've not written before. The plot is not linear for a start, and its themes are subtle, and... well, I don't know. Maybe I've got it wrong with what I am trying to do and the pushing water uphill of it all is too hard for me to pull off.
We'll see.
Nothing ventured.
posted by Kate Allan @ 11:55 pm
5 Comments:
At 10:34 am,
Anonymous said…
Don't be too hard on yourself, Kate. Sometimes, when books nudge themselves into your schedule and bump other ones aside, it's for a good reason. Happened to me last year - I was writing one book, then the next morning the characters were there with the same names but a completely different situation and completely different characters! I went with it and put the original to one sid; when I went back to writing it, it had brewed a bit more in the back of my head and was easier to write (and, I think, a better book).
At 6:15 pm,
Kate Allan said…
Funnily enough since getting a bit down about it, I suudenly saw two new scenes for BIRDS come into view. Scribbled some notes on the train this morning and now can't wait to write them!
At 12:42 pm,
Anonymous said…
Kate, That's what happened to me with my RS and Fantasy. The Fantasy sort of took over and I've been writing like a fend on it. Seems I can't get it down fast enough.
Not to mention I had two more ideas pop into my head in the past two weeks. Another Fantasy and a More Mainstream/ST.
At 6:32 pm,
Julie Cohen said…
Hey Kate, read your and Michelle's article in the RNA mag, and loved it!
Julie
At 12:16 am,
Kate Allan said…
Ah Sheri, it's the ongoing problem. Too many ideas and a lifetime isn't long enough to write them. I visited your website btw. Love the quirky feel to it.
Julie, thanks! I'm going to try and borrow a scanner and scan it in. It was very easy to write - Marina Oliver lifted posts we'd already made on Romna (online chapter of the RNA) and put it together from that!
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