November 2nd, 2009
I know when it’s time to start, I often tell the students when I’m visiting schools. It’s time to start writing that new book when my the ideas get so strong, they threaten to blow out my ears.
After an October of travel, I’d planned to get serious about Potential Book 3 on November 2. Today. This morning, however, the ideas are barely whimpering. It’s okay, though. I actually began writing PB3 on September 4, 2007. I got about 30,000 words into it and stopped to work on my 6th-ish to last version of The Seventh Level. I’m thrilled I did stop. For three reasons.
1. The Seventh Level is the right next book.
2. Those 30,000 words were wandering, aimlessly.
3. Time away has allowed me to realize the cause of that aimlessness – mushy backstory.
So while the ideas are not blowing out my ears, my desire to develop the perfect backstory is growing quite strong.
Now I just need Mr. Hoyt (or whatever his name turns out to be) to open his lips and speak sweet history to me.
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contemplative
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