Wobble wobble, welcome the New Year

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I try to start new things when they are important or I want to do them, and that at any time of the year.  However, last week I listened to a couple of webinars by Plottr about how to use their software which is a program to help authors structure their plot, characters, places, timelines and what have you.  I don’t have a project to plot into their very nice gride, but I do like to be part of these webinars.  It makes me feel connected to the great writing community out there and, this way, I will be all ready to jump in when I get that perfect storyline for book #2.

And as I listened, it sort of crept up on me that, yes I do want to write another novel.  I have been fretting about this possibility for a while now, I have a sort of plot and a sort of possible setting and was going to feature Bob and Brigit (heroes of book #1 Pardon my Camino) but I needed meat on this skeleton, I needed brilliant ideas to flesh it out, perk it up, make it irresistible. As you see there was a lot of needy‘sort of’. That’s not very reader-captivating!

Still casting around, I took the resolution (I guess it is a resolution after all) to just sit down and to write, to start. When I started novel #1, it got off to a great start and soon turned to wobble, but then my heroes came to the rescue and began telling me what they wanted to do. And then other characters came along and they too were bossing me around about their happenings.

Well, fancy that!  For book #1 my method and expectations were quite vague. It took quite a few drafts, then an editor, and copy corrections but in the end, I am proud of this thoughtful lively tale.   Oh, so here’s the thing:  can I do it again……? But if I don’t start and get out there and see what fiction has to say to me, there is nothing to fall flat on my face about.

You know that wonderful advice we get from the experts:  ‘Just do and don’t judge’…. OK….if you say so, I’ll have a go!

Happy New Year!

P.S. The audiobook is finished, stress-city. It has been sent to Findaway Voices, which is the central platform for all things audio. They send it out to the consumer access platforms. These platforms post it within their various time frames.  I am on Kobo and Nooke and some others, not yet on Audible or Spotify.