Deja View

Now that I've finished editing Plans, I have informed my beta readers that they can look forward to being tormented by mid-July. Since I have to always be writing something or risk losing my mind, I'm working on getting things together for a new project. Since it took me between six and eight weeks to write the outline and do some of the research for Plans, I don't expect to actually get down to writing on this one until after I've submitted the first one to some indie publishers or made a decision about self-publishing.

Now I'm writing (re-writing?) the outline for the new story and am already getting obsessed with it. This is actually a story I wrote most of and then abandoned and covered with sand. I've gutted it, rewritten the ideas for most of it and reworked MFC so much that I'm actually having trouble writing her because she's pretty far from any of my other female characters, personality wise. Also changed MMC a little and giving SMC2 a much bigger and more ambiguous role.

It feels so huge and overwhelming, but at the same time it's exciting. This is the same way I felt when I was mapping out Plans. Now I love my characters so much that I actually dream about them and have their character sketches in my work locker, courtesy of a good friend. It's really for the best that I don't take a break between stories. Studies show that idle neurons lead to reruns of Flavor of Love, you know. *shudder*