New Project!

I was so surprised...I finally have been able to write again.

[If you missed the part where I revealed my love for writing, just visit this awkward post.]

So it's been a while since I was last able to write anything. You could say I've been in a bit of a funk lately. I'm about 20 pages into the third installment of my Wyshe series, and you'd think that I'd just be rolling along, like I did with the first two books, but I just can't. It was slow going to begin with with that one, and then, all of a sudden, I couldn't write anymore. I had nowhere to go. Well, that's a lie--I have the basic plotline of this one already planned out--but I just can not figure out where to go from this point in the story. I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that no one has read the second one all the way through, and I kinda had a big plot thing at the end of that one, and I think I'm afraid to move forward until someone tells me it works. haha

Anyway, I've put that one on hold, and it has been for a few months now--almost all semester. I've had the urge to write again, a lot, but I just couldn't do it, and it was so frustrating. I tried to think of new stories, to write that mystery novel I'm creating for Grampa, to reread Wyshe. Nothing. And then, I think it was two days ago, I was in the shower and a new story started forming. It just kind of hit me, and I ran with it.

This time, I'm definitely taking more of a sci-fi route, rather than fantasy, and it's proving to be more difficult already, but I think it could be a really cool concept. I won't go into too many details, but Bree (and I) describe it as a sci-fi, conspiracy theory, dystopian future. Or utopian, depending on your point of view. ;]

This, for example, will be coming into play.

And this. No, not John Lund...

So far, I've completed the first chapter, 10 pages (woo). But a lot has been divulged in those ten pages, and it's all just getting interesting. I'm in love with my new characters--a family of five sisters, including a set of twins, ranging from 14 to 26. And my main character, Valeria, is really intriguing me. I like her.

It's kind of foreign to me, too, having more of a structured plot (though I won't say it's all fleshed out), because with Wyshe I literally had no end goal in mind. I just went with things as they happened. And with this one, I really have to have everything laid out, otherwise it's not gonna work.

And this, by the way, is Indiana's industry. Fun.

And I have to do real research--not just googling mythical creatures from other cultures, or finding a name that means "night" in Slovak. (I seriously did do that. Almost all of my characters have specific names for a specific reason. Even in this new novel. haha) Now I need to know the theory behind communism (woops, I mean, that's not the basis of my governmental system), and the industry of Indiana, and the scientific implications of...some things I'm planning...It's intense. But I think it'll all be worth it.

But who knows? I'm only on page ten. I've barely made a dent in this thing. I'll keep ya updated. Until next time! :]