Corner

I mentioned in the last post that sometimes writers can write themselves into a corner. I had a sequence in my current project that seemed close, but once again, I started pounding away at the keyboard that morning and inspiration struck. It’s an amazing thing, this inspiration. That writing corner remains unoccupied and my story continues. Inspiration on-the-fly is key to this book series, especially since I’m not outlining the stories beforehand and going into them with a sense of exploration. I have to say that it’s an interesting way to write a book and probably not the way a creative writing instructor would endorse. It’s working for me, though, at least in this case. Will I want to do every book I write in the same manner? Absolutely not. One of the recent reviews on Amazon for Next Time said that the author (me) thought out the story very well. Yes, I mostly did, mainly because the storyline involved time travel and if you don’t get the order of events correct then your book will suffer, both in quality and sales. Will I get a similar review when The Drop is published? Doubtful. And I’d laugh if someone did, knowing how I didn’t think it out in advance and the evidence is here online. But it’s a different type of storyline and other than a few threads running through every book in the series, I’m looking for inspiration as I go.